حرية لفلسطين
Freedom for Palestine
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The Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) are Israel's occupying military forces.
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Gerard Butler is a Scottish actor who attends Friends of the Israel Defense Forces galas, helps raise tens of millions of dollars for the Israeli Occupation Forces, and voices repeated love for the settler-colonial project in Palestine whilst funding and shielding occupation.
Gal Gadot, a Zionist asset embedded in global entertainment, echoes Zionist narratives that blame Palestinian resistance for Israel's violence, affirms support for the illegal ethnostate, and uses her visibility to manufacture consent for settler-colonial violence and genocide.
Mayim Bialik is an American actress who spreads propaganda framing Palestinian liberation slogans as calls for Jewish genocide, signs letters justifying Israel's ethnic cleansing under the guise of self-defense, and provides material support to IOF forces during assaults.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, orchestrates the genocide in Gaza, expands settler-colonialism through ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, and deploys dehumanizing rhetoric labeling Palestinians as "children of darkness" to justify occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
Harmony Korine is an American filmmaker, actor, photographer, artist, and author who supports the Zionist settler-colonial project by attending a November 2023 FIDF fundraiser in Miami that raised nearly $10 million directly for the IOF amid its genocide in Palestine.
Yoseph Haddad is an Arab-Israeli journalist and pro-Israel activist who served in the IOF, denies Israel's apartheid and genocide against Palestinians, and promotes narratives that defend Israeli actions while criticizing pro-Palestinian figures and movements.
Hila Klein, IOF veteran and co-founder of h3h3Productions, normalizes Israel's settler-colonial occupation through denial of IOF atrocities against Palestinians, praises genocidal officials like Yoav Gallant as a "really good guy," and erases Palestinian suffering.
Tomer Capone is an Israeli actor who served in the Israeli Occupation Forces as a squad commander in the paratroopers brigade and who signed the "No Hostage Left Behind" open letter thanking Joe Biden for enabling the ethnic cleansing and genocide across Palestine.
Pamela Anderson is a Canadian-American actress and model who advances Israel's settler-colonialism by attending fundraisers for the Israeli Occupation Forces, lauding the apartheid state as "magical" and "vegan," thereby dehumanizing Palestinians and justifying ongoing genocide.
Yael Shelbia, an Israeli Zionist model and actress, served in the Israeli Occupation Forces' Air Force, propagates narratives that justify Israel's genocide in Gaza by framing Palestinians as inherent threats, and uses her platform to shield the settler-colonial state from accoun
David Andrew Burd is an American rapper who bolsters Israel's settler-colonialism by performing in occupied Palestine, headlining fundraisers for the IOF that raised over $250,000, and participating in Birthright trips to normalize the occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing.
Tech billionaire Larry Ellison funnels $26M+ to Israel's settler-colonial army via FIDF, hosts Netanyahu on his private Hawaiian isle, vets US politicians for Zionist loyalty, and through Oracle enforces "commitment to Israel" silencing pro-Palestine dissent amid genocide.
Hofesh Shechter, an Israeli-born choreographer, served in the IOF, rose through the ranks of the Zionist-linked Batsheva Dance Company, and routinely tours his company to occupied Palestine, normalizing Israel's apartheid regime and settler-colonial violence against Palestinians.
Sylvester Stallone, iconic American actor known for Rocky and Rambo, supports the genocidal IOF by attending and endorsing FIDF galas that fund settler-colonial violence, denies Palestinian resistance to occupation, and amplifies Zionist propaganda that shields Israel's genocide.
Eyal Yakoby, Israeli reservist, Bain & Company associate consultant, and former Israeli government spokesperson, systematically denies Israel’s genocide, spreads staged hostage narratives, and weaponizes Indigenous suffering to manufacture consent for the ongoing genocide.
Peter Thiel, billionaire venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, supports Israel's genocide in Gaza by providing AI targeting tools through Palantir, deferring to the IOF's decisions, and investing in Israeli tech.
Alona Tal, an Israeli actress who served in the IOF entertainment unit from 2001 to 2003, signed the 'No Hostage Left Behind' open letter, and weaponises her platform to promote Zionist propaganda that legitimises 'Israel's' ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing across Palestine.
Ashton Kutcher has attended a Friends of the IDF gala, helping raise millions of dollars and directly funding the current ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza and the West Bank.
Adin Haykin, a former IDF soldier who served in the occupation forces, denies Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, revives debunked Zionist hoaxes such as the "beheaded babies" lie to justify mass slaughter, and rewrites the Nakba as a self-inflicted Palestinian tragedy.
Avichay Adraee is the IOF spokesperson for Arab media who justifies Israel's genocide in Gaza by blaming Hamas for all civilian deaths, spreads false Zionist propaganda, and defends bombings of schools and hospitals as targeting "terrorists" and dehumanizing Palestinian children.
Ziggy Marley, a Jamaican musician and son of reggae legend Bob Marley, attended a Friends of the Israel Defense Forces gala that raised $60 million to fund the IOF, and signed an open letter by Creative Community for Peace that supported Israel's "right to defend" itself.
Mindy Kaling is an American actress, writer, and producer who supports Israel's genocide in Gaza, fundraises for the IOF, and propagates Islamophobic narratives to dehumanize Palestinians and justify settler-colonial violence while erasing South Asian histories of colonialism.
She wrote songs ''October Rain'' and ''Hurricane'', which both songs have lyrics that allude to being in support of Israel and the IDF. After the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, Eden will be getting ready to join the IDF, an army that is currently engaged in genocide.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's far-right National Security Minister and Otzma Yehudit leader, incites settler-colonial violence by demanding IDF shoot Palestinian women and children in Gaza, leading Al-Aqsa incursions, and saluting killers of Palestinian youth.
Noam Bettan is an Israeli singer who represents the Zionist settler-colonial entity at Eurovision 2026, began his musical career during mandatory IOF service, and creates songs inspired by Nahal Brigade soldiers killed in Gaza to normalize Israel's apartheid and genocide.
Dr. Eastland Christopher Staveley is a British Zionist general practitioner who endorses the sniping of Palestinian babies by the IOF, calls for razing Gaza and the West Bank to the ground and deploys genocidal rhetoric to justify Israel's settler-colonial violence and occupation
Golda Daphna, an American who made "aliyah" to participate in the racist settler-colonial project displacing indigenous Palestinians, enlists in the IOF and uses her social media platform to dehumanize Palestinians and launder atrocity propaganda that sustains Israel's genocide.
Leonard Cohen is a Canadian singer-songwriter who entertained Israeli occupation forces during the 1973 war in occupied Sinai, bolstering morale for troops engaged in settler-colonial violence against Palestinians and perpetuating dehumanization through cultural normalization.
Ofir Birenbaum, an Israeli-Australian former IOF soldier, has repeatedly harassed an Arab restaurant for "antisemitism" solely on the basis of their race and solidarity with Palestine since a failed attempted to entrap them with the Daily Telegraph in 2025.
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's Finance Minister, denies the existence of the Palestinian people, calls for the depopulation and total destruction of Gaza to enable Jewish settlement, endorses ethnic cleansing across Palestine and southern Lebanon, and dehumanizes Arabs as terrorists.
Noa Kirel is an Israeli singer-songwriter who raises millions for the IOF amid its genocide in Gaza, signs open letters thanking U.S. enablers of ethnic cleansing like Joe Biden, and weaponizes antisemitism accusations against boycotts to dehumanize Palestinian resistance.
Chris Tucker, acclaimed American actor and comedian known for Rush Hour films, supports the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) by attending the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Gala, lending celebrity legitimacy to fundraising that sustains settler-colonial violence.
Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and financier, supported Israel's settler-colonialism by donating to groups backing the IOF, forging business ties with Israeli leaders like Ehud Barak, and operating as a Mossad asset to blackmail elites into supporting Israel's colony.
Avi Meir, an Israeli tech entrepreneur and CEO & Founder of TravelPerk, boasts of his five-year service in the IDF's elite intelligence and special forces units, where he developed software enabling occupation and surveillance, and spreads disinformation to shield Israeli crimes.
Michael Bay is a Hollywood director who has trained with the IOF's secret special forces, hired Zionist settlers for his films, and vacationed on occupied Palestinian land — behaviours that normalise Israel's settler-colonial project, genocidal occupation, and its apartheid state
Ricky Martin is a Puerto Rican singer who supports Israel's settler-colonialism by performing at fundraisers for the IOF and violating BDS with concerts in occupied Palestine, thereby normalizing apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide against Palestinians.
David Draiman of Disturbed signed bombs and an open letter by the Creative Community For Peace asserting Israel's right to 'defend' itself, justifying the murder of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians and the ethnic cleansing of millions more.
David Khazanski of North York, Ontario, Canada is the co-founder and CEO of INKAS Armored Vehicles, a company that has sold armored vehicles and weapons to the government of Israel
Adam Milstein is the chief architect and financier behind Canary Mission, the racist blacklist targeting pro-Palestinian students and activists. He bankrolls digital McCarthyism while backing Israel’s apartheid, occupation, and genocide machine.
Natalia Fadeev, an IOF reservist and social media influencer, enlists in the occupation forces, promotes Zionist propaganda laced with sexualized military imagery, and justifies civilian deaths as the "cost of war" to shield Israel's apartheid regime and ongoing genocide.
Dana Raigrodski, an Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Washington School of Law, served as a military prosecutor and legal counselor with the IOF Military Advocate General Staff Command and embeds Israeli settler-colonialism within U.S. academic institutions.
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, former Israeli academic and "geopolitical analyst," echoed Zionist atrocity propaganda, defended illegal settlements, argued Israel does not target civilians, and laundered IOF narratives to manufacture consent for Israel's ongoing genocidal occupation.
Marissa Streit is a former IOF intelligence officer and CEO of PragerU who denies Israel's genocide in Gaza, propagates Zionist atrocity propaganda that dehumanizes Palestinians as terrorists, and justifies Israel's ongoing settler-colonial violence and ethnic cleansing.
Eden Abergil is an Israeli Occupation Forces soldier who posed in mocking selfies with bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees, treating them as trophies to celebrate her role in Israel's apartheid regime and dehumanizing Palestinians as mere souvenirs of occupation violence.
Matthew Miller, known as Matisyahu, is a Zionist musician who actively supports the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), echoes atrocity propaganda including the debunked beheaded babies hoax, denies the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and frames the settler-colonialism as eternal.
Menajem Peres is a former IOF paratrooper and Columbia student who assaulted anti-genocide protesters at Columbia University with skunk spray — a chemical weapon deployed against Palestinians under occupation — dehumanizing supporters of liberation and supporting Israeli terror.
Bethany Shondark Mandel is a conservative commentator who dehumanizes Palestinians as animals deserving nuclear annihilation, fundraises for IDF soldiers committing genocide in Gaza, and conflates Zionism with Judaism to shield Israel's settler-colonial violence and genocide.
Floyd Mayweather Jr., American boxer, supports Israel's genocide in Gaza by sending aid to IOF soldiers, meeting war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, attending pro-Zionist rallies, and donating to Zionist organizations, thereby perpetuating settler-colonial violence.
Rudy Rochman is a Jewish-Israeli activist and active Israeli Occupation Forces reservist who serves as a sniper in the paratroopers brigade, participates directly in military operations across Palestine and Lebanon, and confronts student encampments to shield settler-colonialism.
Gabriel Boxer is a Zionist influencer and IOF soldier who posts videos of himself and others committing war crimes by blowing up residential buildings in Khan Younis, Gaza, and spreads propaganda to dehumanize Palestinians and justify Israel's ongoing settler-colonial violence.
Fran Drescher, acclaimed American actress known for "The Nanny," attended the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) gala, helping raise $60 million for the IOF to arm and sustain its occupation forces amid settler-colonial violence and genocide in Palestine.
Noy Leyb is an Israeli occupation forces reservist who denies Israel's genocide in Gaza, peddles dehumanizing propaganda that portrays Palestinians as irredeemably hateful savages, and launders atrocity propaganda to justify settler-colonial violence and genocide.
Yael Sendler, an American IOF soldier and pediatric ICU nurse, vandalized a mosque in Rafah by posting photos of anti-Prophet Mohammad graffiti to desecrate Palestinian holy sites, and advocates executing all Palestinians to advance Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Deni Avdija, Israeli NBA star and ex-IDF conscript, launders settler-colonial propaganda by framing occupation service as patriotic duty and Palestinian resistance as barbarism, shielding Israel's apartheid and occupation.
Jonathan Karten is a principal at Awz Ventures who channels venture capital into Israeli defense and dual-use technologies that power settler-colonial violence and genocide, served in the IDF's occupation forces, and assaulted pro-Palestinian students at Toronto Metropolitan Uni.
Gene Simmons, the KISS musician born in Haifa, dismisses artists boycotting 'Israel' as 'idiots' and 'stupid,' attends Friends of the IOF galas, and signs open letters backing 'Israel's' Eurovision inclusion to shield settler-colonialism from accountability amid ongoing genocide.
Eylon Aslan-Levy is an Israeli government spokesman who propagates Zionist atrocity propaganda, including the debunked hoax of Hamas beheading babies, to manufacture consent for Israel's genocide in Gaza and dehumanize Palestinians as inherent terrorists to justify genocide.
Newly appointed CEO of Personetics, Udi Ziv is a former IOF member who proudly served in Unit 8200 which has been deeply implicated in the surveillance, targeting, and oppression of Palestinians and contributed to systematic human rights violations.
Levi Simon is a British-Israeli IOF soldier who dehumanizes Palestinians by filming himself rummaging through lingerie in massacred Gazan homes and waving Israeli flags in destroyed primary schools he labels "terrorism" hubs, perpetuating settler-colonial violence and genocide.
Tim Cook is Apple's CEO who enables Israel's genocide in Gaza by matching donations to IOF-supporting groups totaling $34.5 million, disciplining employees for wearing keffiyehs in solidarity with Palestinians, and expanding Apple's R&D hubs in occupied Palestinian territories.
Guy Harley Oseary is an Israeli-American talent manager who fundraises for organizations supporting the Israeli Occupation Forces, signs pro-Israel statements that amplify atrocity narratives, and uses his industry platform to shield settler-colonial violence across Palestine.
Edan Yemini, president of Black Box Security, applies Israeli military surveillance expertise honed through service in the IOF to high-profile operations, normalising the same apparatus of domination used to enforce apartheid and ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
Eitan Fischberger, a former IOF Staff Sergeant, smeared Bisan Owda, a Palestinian journalist documenting Israel's genocide in Gaza, by accusing her of terrorism ties and disinformation to discredit her, deny the genocide, erase Palestinian suffering, and shield occupation.
"We are dropping hundreds of tons of bombs on Gaza, the focus is on destruction, not accuracy" said the IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari. In November of 2023 he said he found a list Of Hamas' Hostage Guards At A Gaza Hospital. But It Was A Calendar written in Arabic.
Yoel Ohnona is a French-Israeli IOF soldier who filmed and boasted about torturing detained Palestinian civilians in Gaza, dehumanizing them as "sons of whores" and mocking their suffering to justify Israel's ongoing genocide and settler-colonial violence.
Orly Lobel is a law professor born on occupied Palestinian land to settler parents who served as Intelligence Commander in the Israel Occupation Forces’ Unit 8200, enabling surveillance, blackmail, and oppression of Palestinians, and whitewashes Israeli apartheid and occupation.
Jeremy Sofiev is an American volunteer IOF soldier in the 202nd battalion who actively participated in Israel's genocide in Gaza, boasting about "freeing Palestine" while enforcing settler-colonial occupation and war crimes against Palestinians.
Melina Suarez, an IOF veteran now employed by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Police Department, advances Zionist settler-colonialism through direct military service, public fundraising for occupation forces, and the display of stolen Palestinian artefacts to dehumanise them.
Gideon Raff, an Israeli filmmaker known for creating Prisoners of War (adapted as Homeland), leverages his platform in Hollywood to echo Zionist atrocity propaganda, affirm Israel's "right to exist," and shield settler-colonial violence from accountability.
Katharine McPhee, an American entertainer, participates in high-profile fundraising for the Israeli Occupation Forces while touring and performing in occupied Palestine, thereby shielding settler-colonialism and manufacturing consent for apartheid, occupation and genocide.
Jonathan Yudelman is a Zionist academic and former IOF soldier who verbally assaulted and harassed a Muslim woman in a hijab opposing Israel's genocide at a pro-Israel rally, calling her a "bitch" and invading her space to dehumanize her and shield Israel's settler-colonialism.
Haim Saban is an Israeli-American billionaire media mogul who funds Zionist organizations, supports the IOF through multimillion-dollar donations, and denies Israel's genocide in Gaza to dehumanize Palestinians and justify ongoing settler-colonial violence and ethnic cleansing.
Heather Reisman, co-founder of the HESEG Foundation and former SinaiHealth board member, channels resources into the Israeli Occupation Forces through lone soldier programmes whilst her institutional ties shield Israel's genocidal occupation across Palestine from accountability.
Leah Rachmani, a Dutch-Israeli dual national and active IOF soldier, faces a formal criminal complaint in the Netherlands from the #March30Movement via attorney Haroon Raza for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide during her participation in terrorism in Gaza
Molly Rafalowicz is a Zionist community leader who hosted IOF soldiers, fundraised for Israel's apartheid regime amid its genocide in Gaza, and calls for release of Israeli hostages while silent on the slaughter of Palestinians, perpetuating settler-colonial violence and genocide
Keren Yarhi-Milo is the dean of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs who previously served as an IOF intelligence officer and has used her institutional platform to advance Zionist interests at a school with human rights and UN studies concentrations.
Yosef Mizrachi is an Orthodox rabbi who calls for destroying Al-Aqsa Mosque via false-flag missile strike blamed on Iran, dehumanizes Palestinians as wicked slaves deserving death, and frames their suffering as divine punishment to justify Israel's settler-colonialist genocide.
Yedidya Swirsky is an active IOF soldier in combat engineering battalion 601 who enforces Israel's settler-colonial occupation, participates in apartheid enforcement, and perpetuates genocide against Palestinians while residing in occupied Palestinian land as an illegal settler.
Josh Harris, billionaire owner of the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils, funds Zionist youth programs in occupied Palestine that glorify the 1948 Nakba as Israel's founding while grooming underprivileged children — including Ethiopian immigrants — for mandatory IOF service
Andrew Garcia, Cuban-American actor, supports settler-colonialism by attending FIDF galas to raise millions for the IOF, signs letters affirming "Israel's" right to "defend" itself against Palestinian resistance, and perpetuates narratives that shield the occupation and genocide.
Sammy Ben is an American Zionist from Los Angeles who volunteers with the Israeli Occupation Forces on a tourist visa, participates directly in the genocide and ethnic cleansing across Palestine, boasts about the destruction of residential areas in Gaza, and documents it.
Liad Abada is an IOF soldier who celebrates settler-colonial violence by looting Palestinian homes, destroying property, humiliating blindfolded detainees with pig emojis, mocking civilians, and posting celebratory content of bombs and destruction in Gaza and the West Bank.
Yael Eckstein is a Zionist fundraiser who diverts charitable donations to fund IOF soldiers committing genocide in Gaza, supplies equipment to militant settlers in the occupied West Bank, and spreads atrocity propaganda on Fox News to manufacture consent for Israel's occupation.
Joanna Krupa is a Polish-American model and actress who bolsters Israel's apartheid regime by attending fundraisers for the Israeli Occupation Forces, raising millions to arm genocide in Gaza, and promoting tourism to occupied Palestine to normalize settler-colonialism.
Maya Radoszkowicz is an American-Israeli model and IOF soldier who spreads Islamophobic content, celebrates Israel's demolition of Palestinian universities and homes during the Gaza genocide, and mocks slaughtered Palestinians to dehumanize them and justify ongoing genocide.
Yoav Gallant, former Israeli Defense Minister, dehumanizes Palestinians as "human animals," ordered a complete siege on Gaza to starve civilians, and authorized the Hannibal Directive on October 7, 2023, killing Israelis to prevent captures, all to advance Israel's genocide.
Matan Goldner, former IOF video surveillance leader, directly supports the genocide in Gaza through, Zionist promotion internationally, and his role advancing NATAL, which funnels resources to heal and bolster resilience among Israelis complicit in settler-colonialist genocide.
Uri Cohen, an IOF veteran and social media influencer, spreads Zionist propaganda that dehumanizes Palestinians, justifies Israel's genocide in Gaza, and equates Palestinian resistance with terrorism, fueling consent for settler-colonial violence and genocide.
Isaac "Bougie" Herzog is the President of Israel who denies Israel's genocide in Gaza, propagates Zionist narratives that dehumanize Palestinians as collectively responsible, and justifies Israel's settler-colonial violence and genocide by declaring no innocent civilians in Gaza.
Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, has been an active voice pushing for the genocide of Palestinians.
Tally Gotliv, a Likud Knesset member, threatens escalated genocide in Gaza by vowing to use imprecise missiles to "flatten 10 buildings" if the US withholds precision arms, openly justifying mass ethnic cleansing and collective punishment of Palestinians.
Micha Danzig attorney and former IOF soldier who denies Israel's genocide and apartheid in Palestine, propagates Zionist myths of exclusive Jewish indigeneity while framing Arab presence as colonialism, and deploys what-aboutism to shield the Zionist entity from accountability.
Lior Narkis, Israeli musician and IOF veteran, serenades occupation forces with genocidal rhetoric and derogatory insults against Gaza, perpetuating consent for Israel's apartheid regime and shielding its war crimes from accountability.
David Wolfson, a British peer and barrister, denies Israel's genocide in Gaza, fundraises to support IOF troops committing atrocities, and propagates Zionist narratives that frame Palestinians as existential threats to justify settler-colonial violence and ethnic cleansing.
Uri Gobey, a pro-Israel "activist and fundraiser operating from within the settler state, glorifies service in the Israeli Occupation Forces, frames potential deaths in combat as heroic sacrifice for the Zionist project, and organizes campaigns that provide support for genocide.
Casey Wasserman is a prominent American businessman who supports Israel's genocide in Gaza through millions in donations to the Friends of the IOF, public solidarity statements with the settler-colonial state, and visits to occupied sites to affirm Zionist narratives and erasure.
Galit Distel-Atbaryan is a Likud Knesset member and former Minister of Information who calls for erasing Gaza from the face of the Earth, dehumanizes Palestinians as monsters and Nazis, and demands a vengeful IDF to wipe out the territory, justifying Israel's ongoing genocide.
Eliyahu Mali is a rabbi and head of Shirat Moshe yeshiva in occupied Jaffa who incites genocide in Gaza by urging IOF soldiers to kill all Palestinians, including babies and women, framing them as future threats to justify Israel's ongoing settler-colonial violence and genocide.
Michael Dell is a tech mogul who arms Israel's genocide by supplying IOF servers and equipment via multimillion-dollar contracts, donates millions to Friends of the IOF, and normalizes settler-colonialism through his foundation's investments in the apartheid state's tech sector.
Lior Tuvia is an IOF terrorist from the 749th Combat Engineering Battalion who occupies Palestinian schools in Gaza after expelling displaced families, turns them into military bases, and desecrates Islamic symbols by stepping on flags as "carpets."
Yedidya Baruchi is an IOF soldier who documented himself demolishing a school in occupied Gaza, boasting "In my childhood, I've always dreamed of blowing up my school, today I'm blowing up a school," to glorify Israel's genocide and destruction of Palestinian livelihoods.
David Portal is an IOF major and company commander in the Gaza Division who posted a video on Instagram explicitly calling for the annihilation of Gaza, declaring there are no innocents — including children, wives, or anyone — and invoking biblical justification for genocide.
Allyson Shapiro is a businesswoman who attended pro-'Israel' parades, follows the IOF, and amplified the fabricated beheaded babies atrocity propaganda to dehumanise Palestinians and manufacture consent for 'Israel's' ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing across Palestine.
Asaf Eyal is a former IOF combat soldier and Columbia field instructor who denies Palestinian indigeneity, censors children's books on Palestine, and smears pro-Palestinian activism as "pro-Hamas" to dehumanize Palestinians and justify Israel's settler-colonialism and genocide.
Openly co-hosted a fundraiser for @friends_of_the_idf in November 2023. Spreads Zionist propaganda on her instagram (mainly via stories) that conflates anti-Zionism with antisemitism. Focuses on Hamas and misrepresents support for the Palestinian people with terrorism.
Guy Hochman is an Israeli comedian and IOF propagandist who dehumanizes Palestinians as "sons of death" and "Hamasniks," mocks their destroyed homes in Gaza videos claiming "everything is ours," incites genocide through calls for nuclear strikes and aid blockades.
David Foster is a Canadian musician and record executive who attends high-profile fundraisers that raise tens of millions of dollars for the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and tours occupied Palestine to normalize Zionist settler-colonialism and help shield genocidal occupation.
Shai Mimoun is a French-Israeli musician of Tunisian descent who serves as an active IOF soldier in Gaza, performing songs with occupation forces to boost morale amid genocide, while dehumanizing Palestinians through his complicity in settler-colonial violence and genocide.
Guy Nattiv, an Oscar-winning Israeli filmmaker based in the United States, produces Zionist propaganda through films like Golda and amplifies IOF atrocity narratives to manufacture consent for Israel's ongoing occupation, apartheid, and genocide across Palestine.
Israel Katz, Likud MK and current Defense Minister since November 2024, perpetuates Israel's apartheid regime by endorsing indefinite military occupation of Gaza, West Bank expansions, and aid blockades that weaponize starvation.
Ted Lapkin, a former Israeli occupations intelligence officer and Zionist lobbyist turned Ballarat councillor, weaponizes antisemitism accusations to silence opposition to Israel's genocide in Gaza and suppress climate action initiatives.
Dr. Dynai Eilig, Israeli-born orthopedic surgeon based in Vancouver, BC, traveled to occupied Palestine on October 9, 2023, to treat injuries at Soroka Medical Center amid Israel's genocide in Gaza, serving as a reserve IOF fighter and providing medical support to genocidaires.
Yossi Felberbaum is a former IOF soldier and recruiter for Unit 8200 who bolstered Israel's cyberwarfare capabilities for mass surveillance, blackmail, and genocide in Gaza, now married to Zionist UK MP Damien Egan, embedding Zionist infiltration in British politics.
Gal Gilboa is a Zionist settler who served in the IOF’s MAGAV unit enforcing apartheid in the occupied West Bank, regularly amplifies Zionist propaganda on social media, and mocks Israel’s genocide in Gaza with “Good Morning Gaza” videos of airstrikes on civilians.
Moshe Feiglin is a far-right Israeli politician who advocates genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, invoking Hitler to justify expelling all Palestinians as "Islamo-Nazis" and resettling the land as "Hebrew Gaza" to advance settler-colonialism and dehumanize Palestinians.
Elisha Madin is an Israeli occupation forces reservist in the paratroopers brigade who advances settler-colonial violence by participating in the genocide that slaughters Palestinians and razes homes, embodying his father Rabbi Yaakov Madin's genocidal ideology that permits rape.
Richard Hecht, a British-born lieutenant colonel in the Israeli Occupation Forces, voluntarily enlists in the IOF participates in operations that advance settler-colonial violence, launders atrocity propaganda, and justifies mass killings of Palestinians to shield genocide.
Assaf Kaplan is a former IOF Unit 8200 officer who surveilled and blackmailed Palestinians to enforce occupation and apartheid, now directing a Labour-linked firm that pays influencers to spread pro-Labour propaganda, manufacturing consent for UK's complicity in Israeli genocide.
Ido Levi, an Israeli soldier in the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion of the Israeli Occupation Forces, rigs explosives to destroy Rafah’s critical water reservoir in the Tel Sultan neighborhood and boasts about the act on social media as “in honor of Shabbat."
Rabbi Yizhak Meir Sabo, Dallas-based rabbi and former IOF tank sergeant, spreads unverified atrocity propaganda about Palestinian fighters raping and beheading Israelis on October 7 to dehumanize Palestinians and manufacture consent for Israel's ongoing genocide in Palestine.
Yakir Ben-Elisha is an Israeli software engineer at Microsoft who served as a sniper in the Israeli Occupation Forces' special LOTAR unit during Israel's genocide across Palestine and directly participated in the systematic killing of Palestinians amid Zionist occupation.
Shlomo Kramer is an Israeli cybersecurity mogul who denies Israel's genocide in Gaza by equating Palestinian resistance to ISIS, advocates censoring criticism of settler-colonialism via limiting U.S. free speech, and leverages his IDF Unit 8200 ties to bolster Israel's occupation
Amir Hetsroni is a former IOF soldier of Polish-Romanian origin who has employed dehumanizing rhetoric against Palestinians whilst based in occupied Palestine, thereby legitimising the apartheid regime and its ongoing genocide across Palestine.
David Grutman is a Miami-based hospitality entrepreneur who attends and supports Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) galas, funds and legitimizes the IOF, and uses his platform to affirm Zionist settler-colonialism while framing genocide critics as antisemitic.
Simcha Rothman, chair of the Knesset's Constitution Committee for Religious Zionism, dehumanizes Palestinians as inherent threats, rejects famine amid Israel's aid blockade, and advocates extinguishing Palestinian hopes for statehood to shield and perpetuate the occupation.
Zohar Yossef, a reservist in Israel's 35th Paratroopers Brigade "Tzanchanim" of Mexican origin, serves in the ongoing genocide across Palestine and publicly documents his involvement to humanize the Israeli Occupation Forces while shielding settler-colonialism from accountability
Major Sean Glass, commander of the Vampire Empire Company in Israel’s 52nd Armoured Battalion (“Ha-Bok’im / The Breachers”), ordered the firing of 335 bullets from Merkava tanks that murdered six-year-old Hind Rajab, six of her family members, and two Palestinian paramedics.
Shir Rajuan, an Israeli web developer and physicist, contributed to "Words of Iron," a Zionist digital tool enabling mass reporting of Palestinian and pro-Palestine content on social media to censor and suppress narratives exposing Israel's genocide.
Richard Bouzaglou is a Montreal physiotherapist who empowers Israel's genocide in Gaza by volunteering to rehabilitate IOF soldiers complicit in war crimes, while affirming Israel as his "homeland" and conflating Zionism with Judaism to erase Palestinian indigeneity.
Ryan Kavanaugh, founder of Relativity Media and Proxima Media, signs open letters echoing Israel's "right to defend itself" while funneling funds to Zionist groups like Hadassah and FIDF to manufacture consent for apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and the slaughter of Palestinians.
Michael Oren is a Zionist diplomat and historian who denies Israel's genocide in Gaza, propagates narratives justifying settler-colonial violence against Palestinians, and dehumanizes Palestinian resistance to shield the apartheid state from accountability.
Yahav Lichner, a former Israeli diplomat and current Director of UNICEF’s Washington office, repeatedly supplied Israeli diplomats with confidential UN reports and internal briefings, thereby aiding the Zionist entity in shielding its settler-colonial and genocidal occupation.
Faye Kellerman, author of the Decker/Lazarus mystery series, donates to and promotes support for the IOF, owns property in occupied Jerusalem, and uses her platform to manufacture consent for Israel's apartheid regime amid its unrelenting genocide in Gaza.
Randy Levine is an American attorney and president of the New York Yankees who promotes IOF recruitment by hosting events for future soldiers and donating merchandise, sportswashing Zionist settler-colonialism to justify the occupation forces' ongoing apartheid and genocide.
Israeli American Avihay Shuker from the Engineering Battalion posted about demolishing areas in Gaza boasted about raiding displaced Palestinians' homes, taking pictures with their belongings, and detonating a block for his 25th birthday.
Erel Segal, Israeli right-wing journalist and broadcaster, dehumanizes Palestinians through eugenics-tinged rhetoric, denies engineered famine as "Hamas propaganda," and accuses Israeli media of exploiting "deformed children" to justify Israel's genocide.
Amihai Eliyahu is a far-right Israeli minister who calls for nuking Gaza, denies innocents exist there, and advocates expelling Palestinians waving their flag, dehumanizing them as threats to justify Israel's genocide and settler-colonial expansion.
Yitzhak Kroizer is a far-right Israeli Knesset member for the Otzma Yehudit party who dehumanizes Palestinians as having "no innocent civilians" or "no innocent children" in Jenin, defends the IOF's killing of Palestinian families including children, and pushes for a total annex.
Ronn Torossian, a public relations executive and founder of 5WPR, leads the militant Zionist group Betar USA, calls for "more blood in Gaza" to justify Israel's genocide, doxxes pro-Palestinian students for deportation, and funds settler expansion in occupied Palestine.
Ben Jacobs, former IOF war criminal & current Birthright Israel staff, signed a Creative Community For Peace open letter asserting Israel's right to 'defend' itself, justifying the murder of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians & the ethnic cleansing of millions more.
David Blatt is a Zionist settler and basketball coach who served in the IOF, promotes sportswashing through Zionist teams, and propagates lies denying Zionist conquest and death sanctification to normalize settler-colonial violence, apartheid, and genocide against Palestinians.
Ishai Gottlieb is a Zionist rabbi and former IOF commanding officer who voluntarily returned from Canada to occupied Palestine to participate in Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, dehumanizing Palestinians as "evil" that must be treated accordingly while advancing occupation.
Linda Boeijen, managing director of Four Winds K9, profited from exporting and training military dogs used by the IOF to attack, maim, and kill Palestinians in their homes, prisons, and occupied territories, directly enabling Israel's apparatus of genocidal Zionist occupation.
Nochi Mandel is an IOF colonel who advocates for sieging Gaza to block humanitarian aid, signed a letter demanding the shutdown of hospitals and supplies to starve Palestinians, and oversaw the drone strikes that slaughtered seven World Central Kitchen aid workers.
Nami Melumad is a Dutch-Israeli flautist who signed the Creative Community for Peace open letter asserting "Israel's" right to defend itself and thereby endorsed the IOF's genocide and ethnic cleansing across Palestine.
Noam Benzimra, a proudly declared Zionist and IOF sergeant major in elite Maglan Unit, served on the northern front from September 30, 2024, amid Israel's escalated assaults on Lebanon, contributing to the subjugation of Palestinians and regional allies.
Assaf Mohaban is an Israeli software engineer who participates in the Israeli Occupation Forces' invasion of southern Lebanon, desecrates the property of displaced Lebanese civilians by entering their water well to perform a Jewish ritual bath, and normalizes Zionist terrorism.
Max Veifer is an Israeli influencer and ex-IOF soldier who releases edited videos targeting Muslim healthcare workers, inciting Islamophobia to dehumanize Palestinians, silence solidarity with their liberation, and shield Israel's ongoing genocide and settler-colonial violence.
Lior Shmuel Malka, an Israeli soldier in the Givati Brigade, posts images of his battalion operating in Palestine and hosts comments where fellow soldiers admit to killing Palestinian children while declaring "It's fun," to normalize genocide and dehumanizing Palestininians.
Ashley Waxman Bakshi, Canadian-Israeli beauty and lifestyle influencer and ex-IOF member, deploys social media hasbara to whitewash Israel's genocide, justify IOF violence, and frame Palestinians as threats, shielding the settler-colonial ethnostate from accountability.
Isabelle (Isy) Burke, Canadian-born IOF sergeant and former lone soldier from Ottawa, rejected Canada after a "Birthright trip," made "Aliyah," joined a combat unit in the Iron Dome system, and publicly glorifies her service to manufacture consent for Israel's illegal ethnostate.
Sabo Amos is an Israeli surgeon and IOF reservist who dehumanizes Palestinians as cockroaches and loathsome insects, volunteers for their elimination in Gaza's genocide, and calls for erasing Gaza to justify settler-colonial violence and ethnic cleansing.
Ella Kenan, a former captain in the Israeli intelligence corps and founder of BrightMind, orchestrates large-scale influence operations that spread Zionist propaganda, equate Palestinian resistance with ISIS to dehumanize it, and launder Israel's settler-colonial genocide.
Oren Zini, senior IDF officer overseeing occupation forces in the West Bank, propagates biblical justifications for Palestinian extermination through Amalek rhetoric and plague invocations, shielding Israel's illegal apartheid regime and manufacturing consent for genocide.
Manor Solomon, an Israeli footballer, serves in the IOF, participates in Zionist propaganda via StandWithUs videos, affirms "Israel's" right to defend itself, spreads lies blaming Palestinians for IOF bombings like Al-Shifa, and sportswashes the settler-colonial genocide.
Benjamin Morais is an IOF soldier of French nationality who loots and displays underwear from displaced or killed Palestinian women on his dating profile, dehumanizing Palestinians as trophies of war and perpetuating Israel's genocide, ethnic cleansing, and settler-colonialism.
Itay Abuzaglo, an Israeli reservist of Moroccan origin, serves in the Engineering Unit of the Israeli Occupation Forces where he rigs and detonates large neighborhoods across central and northern Gaza to advance ethnic cleansing and enable settler-colonial expansion.
Ahavat Hashem Gordon is an Israeli Muay Thai and kickboxing fighter born and raised in the illegal Israeli settlement of Shilo in the occupied West Bank, who proudly represents settler-colonialism by wearing kippah and Israeli flag and dehumanizing Palestinian resistance.
Adi Daniel is an IOF soldier in the Givati Brigade's Shaked Battalion who raids UNRWA health centers in Rafah, converts them into military bases, and posts images boasting about these war crimes to justify Israel's settler-colonial violence, apartheid, and ongoing genocide.
Tomer Bar, Aluf and commander of the IOF's Israeli Air Force since April 2022, directs the systematic aerial genocide in Gaza, escalatory strikes on Lebanon, and large-scale attacks on Iran that demolish infrastructure and lives while Zionist propaganda launders them as defensive
Daniel Pinner is a British settler who propagates Kahanist ideology, incites racist violence against Palestinians, celebrates the murder of Palestinian children, and aligns with Jewish terrorists to advance Israel's settler-colonial genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Itai Erdal, a former IOF combatant who served three years occupying Palestine and Lebanon, now resides safely in Canada as a theatre artist, using his past oppression of Palestinians to create performative works that center his own reflections while evading full accountability.
Gabriel "Gabi" Siboni, IDF reserve colonel and cyber-warfare architect, authors the Dahiya Doctrine demanding disproportionate force against civilians, then demands permanent IDF military rule over Gaza to crush Palestinian resistance and entrench Israel's genocidal occupation.
Benny Gantz is an Israeli politician and retired IOF general who boasts of bombing Gaza back to the Stone Age, issues genocidal threats against Lebanon, and perpetuates Zionist settler-colonialism through denial of Israel's genocide and advocacy for endless military occupation.
Will Hassid, a Muhlenberg College student and former IOF soldier, is a member of the historically Zionist fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi, which promotes support for the settler-colonial state of Israel.
Nissim Black, an American-Israeli Orthodox Jewish rapper and podcaster, vocally defends Israel's settler-colonial genocide in Gaza, blames Hamas for all suffering, denies Palestinian historical nationhood, undermines starvation evidence, and supports IOF occupational genocide.
Beni Aharon, an Israeli military officer and commander of the IOF 146th Division, directed the 401st Armoured Brigade that murdered six-year-old Hind Rajab, six of her family members, and two Palestinian paramedics with 335 bullets on 29 January 2024, and participates in genocide
Gary Mann is an emergency medicine specialist and former IOF soldier in the Nachal Brigade (reserves as medical officer as of 2019), who upholds Zionist settler-colonialism through military service defending the occupation state and family inspiration for IOF enlistment.
Dani Breznik is an Israeli-Russian reservist in the Engineering Unit of the Israeli Occupation Forces who boastingly films himself rigging explosives and detonating Palestinian homes in Gaza, and celebrates completing a full year of service in the genocidal IOF terrorist squad.
Noam Tibon is a retired IOF general who advances Zionist settler-colonialism through military command in occupied Palestine, justifying blockades on Gaza, demanding offensives to demolish Palestinian tunnels shielding against IOF bombardments, and pushing for illegal expansion.
Rabbi Liraz Zeira is a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary and IOF major who served in Gaza amid Israel's genocide, printing Jewish religious texts in occupied Palestinian land to spiritually protect soldiers committing ethnic cleansing, and boosting morale to perpetuate Zionist terrorism.
Daniel Kollek is an award-winning emergency physician and former combat officer in the IOF who volunteered with Israeli ambulance to support the settler-colonial state's response, framing Palestinians as threats while normalizing Israel's occupation and ongoing genocide.
Itay Cukierkopf, a dual Argentine-Israeli citizen and tank crew member in the IOF’s Vampire Empire Company, participated in the deliberate murder of six-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab, six of her family members, and two Palestine Red Crescent paramedics amid genocide.
Noa Cochva, a former Miss Israel and IOF combat medic turned public speaker with StandWithUs, deploys her platform and military service narrative to deny famine and atrocities in Palestine, affirm the moral superiority of the IOF, and manufacture consent for Israel's occupation.
Raz Bachar, a tech executive and former IOF platoon commander, participated in Israel's 2008-2009 military operations and now leads partnerships between Microsoft and Israeli startups that develop surveillance tools for the occupation, laundering apartheid tech as "innovation."
Yair Moguiliansky, an Israeli Argentinian reservist in the Combat Engineering Corps, serves in the Israeli Occupation Forces and posts photos from Khan Yunis while rigging displaced Palestinians' homes with explosives before detonating them to advance settler-colonialist terror.
Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv is a rabbinical judge and IOF soldier who demolishes Palestinian homes in Gaza with D9 bulldozers, boasts of flattening Jabalia and other neighborhoods to render them uninhabitable, and advocates Jewish resettlement to advance Israel's ongoing genocide.
Shai DeLuca, a former IOF soldier and Canadian-Israeli interior designer/media figure, pinkwashes Israel's apartheid and genocide by claiming LGBTQ+ rights in the settler state disprove accusations of crimes against Palestinians, while whitewashing IOF violence and genocide.
Boaz Cohen is a retired IDF colonel who quotes biblical commands to blot out Amalek in reference to Palestinians, dehumanizing them as existential threats to justify Israel's settler-colonial violence, apartheid, and genocide in Gaza.
Michael Gordon is a retired Canadian geriatrician and emeritus professor of medicine who weaponizes his medical credentials to publish articles conflating antisemitism with anti-Zionism, denies Israel's settler-colonial violence in Gaza, and whitewashes the ongoing genocide.
Moshe Yifrah is an IOF soldier who incites genocide in Gaza by urging troops to burn everything and massacre Palestinians, including babies, to perpetuate Israel's settler-colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, and dehumanization of Palestinians.
Raquel Charet is the Principal of Masada College, a Zionist institution in Sydney which organizes Israel solidarity events with children, hosts former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, and launches scholarships honoring female IOF terrorists while echoing Zionist propaganda
Matti Friedman, a Canadian-Israeli journalist and former IOF soldier, whitewashes Israel's settler-colonial occupation and genocide in Gaza, promotes hasbara by accusing media of anti-Israel bias, and dehumanizes Palestinian resistance to justify ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Lee Oren is an Israeli tank commander who dehumanizes Palestinians as "subhumans" and "savage creatures with IQs of 68," invokes biblical commands to wipe out Amalek in reference to Gazans, and advocates for their mass death or expulsion to justify Israel's settler-colonialism.
David Zibo is an IOF soldier in the Israeli engineering unit who systematically films and posts videos on Instagram of detonating Palestinian homes in Gaza, boasting about and celebrating the destruction to glorify Israel's settler-colonial violence and ongoing genocidal terror.
Yair Lapid is an Israeli opposition leader who denies Israel's genocide in Gaza, propagates Zionist narratives that justify settler-colonial expansion, and frames Palestinians as inherent threats to dehumanize them and perpetuate Israel's ongoing apartheid and ethnic cleansing.
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Ella commanded the 52nd Armoured Battalion of the Israeli Occupation Forces’ 401st Armoured Brigade and bears command responsibility for the murder of six-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab, six of her family members, and two Red Cross Paramedics.
Uri Sadan is a Religious Zionist rabbi, IOF reservist who served in Gaza during Israel's genocide, and newly elected Chief Rabbi of Savyon who participated in the occupation forces' violence against Palestinians and posted images of himself amid burning Palestinian homes.
Sarah Aamidor, a University of Sydney biologist and former IOF commander, weaponises her platform to surveil pro-Palestine protesters, lobby for the dismissal of Arab academics, and amplify Zionist propaganda that dehumanises Palestinian resistance across Palestine.
Elinor Ben Tora, IOF soldier stationed in Gaza, shares content glorifying her role in the destruction of Palestinian homes and infrastructure, including mine placement for neighborhood detonations and militarization of civilian hospitals, manufacturing consent for genocide.
Yigal Carmon, former Israeli military intelligence colonel and MEMRI founder, advances Zionist propaganda by selectively translating and disseminating Arabic and Persian media to portray Palestinians as inherent extremists and threats to manufacture consent for Israeli occupation
Omri Felous, a Brazilian settler in the IOF combat engineering unit, records the rigging and destruction of Palestinian homes, universities, and communities to manufacture consent for Israel's apartheid regime and shield its war crimes from accountability.
Shaked Tabib is an Israeli Occupation Forces soldier who fought in Gaza, dehumanizing Palestinians by declaring "no innocents in Gaza," rejecting mercy, and framing all Gazans as guilty to justify Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing as well as its 78+ years of occupation.
Inon Yaakov, an IDF soldier deployed to Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, posts social media content that vandalizes Palestinian family mementos and glorifies the erasure of their lives, manufacturing consent for Israel's settler-colonial destruction and in genocide.
Ran Ankory is a spine surgeon and Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF Medical Corps who served in leadership roles including Division Medical Officer and Head of the IDF Public Health Branch, normalizing Israel's settler-colonial military apparatus and ongoing genocide and occupation.
Yitzchak Ickovich, a Canadian university graduate and former Stand With Us fellow, made "Aaliyah" to occupy Palestinian land and enlisted in the IOF to defend the settler-colonial ethnostate and perpetuate 77+ years of Zionist terrorism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide.
Darrell Ginsberg is a family medicine physician and hospitalist who served in the IOF, denies Israel's genocide and apartheid through signed statements, and propagates Zionist narratives that frame Palestinians as threats to justify Israel's settler-colonialism and genocide.
Eyal Moshe Karim, Brigadier General and Chief Rabbi of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) since 2016, dehumanizes non-Jews and justifies extreme wartime violations against them, including permitting soldiers to rape, thereby normalizing Zionism's inherent sexual violence.
Michael Gofeld is a former IOF soldier who denies Palestinian indigeneity, propagates Zionist myths framing Palestinians as foreign genocidal Arabs, and justifies Israel's settler-colonial violence to perpetuate the ongoing occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
Avi Yemini, Rebel News Australia Bureau Chief and convicted domestic abuser, echoes atrocity propaganda through far-right outlets, doxxes people of colour, and deploys the "Free Palestine" party name to undermine Palestinian liberation and sustain Israel's occupation and genocide
Johnny Time is an ex-IOF member and blockchain influencer who uses his platform to spread racist, pro-genocide rhetoric against Palestinian and pinkwash Israel’s genocide with disingenuous LGBT appeals.
Alex Tacher, co-host of the Spanish-language podcast Par de tres, advances Zionist normalisation by residing in Tel Aviv under a Masa Israel-linked programme and maintaining documented ties to the IOF, thereby lending cultural legitimacy to the apartheid regime's occupation.
Golan Vach is a Colonel in the Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) reserves and former commander of the National Rescue Unit who fabricated the "eight burned babies" atrocity propaganda in Kibbutz Be’eri to justify genocide, and led settler-involved demolition units amid occupation.
Natan Huberman, a Canadian-born physician and opinion writer, participated in the settler-colonial project through "Aaliyah," enlisted as a lone soldier in the Israeli Occupation Forces' Golani Brigade, and actively promotes Jewish supremacy against indigenous Palestinians.
Orli Broer, a Canadian Zionist who served in the IOF, enforced apartheid restrictions on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank by processing visas and permits that deny freedom of movement, contributing to settler-colonial control and the ongoing ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Mazi Melesa Pilip is a Nassau County legislator and former IOF paratrooper who vocally supports Israel's genocide in Gaza, affirms the settler-colonial state's "obligation" to protect civilians through military violence, and leverages her IOF service to shield Israel.
Ageze Guadie is an Ethiopian-born illegal settler who made Aliyah to Occupied Palestine in 2002, served in the IOF as a technical quartermaster from 2007, and represents the settler-colonial entity as an Olympic marathon runner whilst normalising Israel's genocidal occupation.
Adi Bekore is an IOF terrorist who served as deputy commander of the 749 Battalion during the genocide across Palestine, posted a biblical call to slaughter Amalekites including children and infants, and advanced Zionist settler-colonialism through his military role.
Yachiam Sharlo, officer in the IOF's 55th Paratroopers Brigade, is a documented war criminal whose genocidal rhetoric on social media while serving in Gaza serves as evidence of intent in South Africa's ICJ case against Israel's genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes.
Bram Settenbrino is an American-Israeli IOF soldier who posts videos glorifying indiscriminate firing into Palestinian ruins and the detonation of homes and mosques in Gaza, perpetuating Israel's genocide, ethnic cleansing, and cultural erasure of Palestinians.
Yair Miller is the CEO of United Israel Appeal Australia who has directed more than $376 million in tax-free funds to "Israel" including the IOF and led "mission trip" programmes promoting the "Aaliyah" settler-colonial project thereby subsidising the genocide across Palestine.
Nir Koren is an Israeli-born rabbi and lawyer who moved to Canada before returning to fight with the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the ongoing genocide against Palestinians and normalizes and celebrates the settler-colonial occupation through his rabbinical roles.
Ariel Kallner, a Likud Knesset member and right-wing Zionist politician, openly called for a second Nakba in Gaza that would overshadow the 1948 ethnic cleansing, inciting mass displacement and destruction to advance Israel's settler-colonial genocide and occupation.
Samantha Schoenbaum is a Zionist fundraiser and FIDF board member who teams up with the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces to raise money for IOF soldiers, perpetuating support for Israel's settler-colonial genocide, apartheid, and occupation in Palestine.
Rabbi Pinchas Biton, Mara D'asrah of Kehillat Eretz Hemdah, organizes community campaigns and events to support IOF operations in occupied Palestine, frames Gaza's devastation as a step toward Zionist religious supremacy, and shields Israel's apartheid regime from accountability.
Leah Goldstein, former IOF elite commando instructor and Canadian ultra-cyclist, proudly served in Israel's settler-colonial military, denies the genocide in Gaza as mere "war," and uses her athletic "fame" in to defend Zionist violence and shield genocidal occupation
Eitan Ellis, a Canadian IOF veteran from the Golani Brigade, enforces settler-colonial violence in occupied Palestine, claims the IOF is the "most moral army in the world" to whitewash atrocities, and relies on his father Israel Ellis to defend him against accountability efforts.
Emily Damari, a dual British-Israeli national and former Staff Sergeant in the IOF Border Police based in Hebron, weaponises her platform to propagate Zionist narratives that erase Palestinian suffering, shield the settler-colonial occupation, and enforces apartheid.
Nir Maman, an Israeli-born counter-terrorism trainer and former elite IOF operator who relocated to Canada before returning to fight in occupied Palestine, glorifies participation in raids, door-kicking operations, and assaults across Palestine while dehumanizing Palestinians.
Bayli Dukes is a Canadian-born Zionist settler who participated in "aliyah" and voluntarily served as a combat soldier in the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), participating in the enforcement of apartheid, occupation, and settler-colonial violence against Palestinians.
On Amir, a marketing professor and Senior Associate Dean at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management, served nearly a decade as a pilot in the terrorist Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) air force, directly contributing to the enforcement of settler-colonialism and genocide.
Boaz Tamam, a senior Israeli Occupation Forces commander branded the "Butcher of Gaza," directs massacres across Palestine as Deputy Commander of the 9th Infantry Division and former commander of the Raiders Company in the Tzabar Battalion and oversees the slaughter of civilians.
Leon Khlebnikov, an IOF tank gunner and terrorist, echoes Zionist propaganda through social media posts glorifying destruction in Gaza, evades accountability in the Netherlands, and normalises the ongoing genocide across Palestine by actively participating in it.
Rafi Broer, Canadian participant in the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), voluntarily enlisted and served in a combat engineering role within the settler-colonial military apparatus that upholds apartheid, occupation, and ongoing genocide against Palestinians.
Lexie Gutierrez-Goldfarb, Director of Sales & Branding at Sow Good, promotes Zionism by frequently traveling to the settler state, sharing content that centers Israeli experiences amid its genocide in Palestine, and producing meals in bunkers to support IOF forces and settlers.
Asaph Rolnitsky is a neonatologist who served in the IOF, denies Israel's genocide and apartheid through signed statements, and propagates Zionist narratives that frame Palestinians as threats to justify Israel's settler-colonial violence and ethnic cleansing.
Shlomi Hazoni is a Lieutenant Colonel (reserves) in the IOF’s 8114 Battalion who openly calls for the destruction of Gaza, denies the existence of innocent Palestinian civilians, and celebrates revenge and the annihilation of civilian infrastructure across Palestine as legitimate
Major Yoav Laloum, reserve Major in the IOF Military Rabbinate and chairman of Noar Kehalacha, echoes Zionist dehumanization of Palestinian civilians in Gaza to justify ongoing genocide and shields the settler-colonial military apparatus from accountability.
Linoy Ashram, a retired Israeli rhythmic gymnast, is an illegal settler who served in the IOF, participates in Zionist sportswashing for the settler-colonial project, and spreads racist propaganda dehumanizing Palestinians as “terrorists" while mourning actual IOF terrorists.
Zachary Brown, a Canadian-born former IOF soldier, served in the Kfir Brigade enforcing military occupation through checkpoints, patrols, arrests, and urban warfare in the occupied West Bank, bolstering Israel's settler-colonial apartheid regime and contributing to genocide.
Natasha Barnston, a Canadian who enlisted in the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) as a lone soldier and later became a life coach, normalizes settler-colonialism and apartheid by serving in the IOF, urging all Jews to join its ranks, and conflating Zionism with Judaism.
Davidi Ben Zion, an illegal settler, IOF officer, and board member of the Jewish National Fund, actively promotes annexation and sovereignty over stolen Palestinian land while weaponizing atrocity propaganda to manufacture consent for Israel's genocidal occupation.
Netta Gelb, a former IOF soldier in air defence, contributes to settler-colonial occupation by making "Aaliyah" to stolen Palestinian land, serving in the IOF amid its genocidal campaigns, and normalizing Zionist militarism that displaces and slaughters Palestinians.
Raz Hershko is an Israeli Olympic judoka who serves as an illegal settler, participates in the Israeli Occupation Forces as an exceptional athlete, mourns IOF soldiers as heroes, and engages in sportswashing propaganda for xenophobic and Zionist organizations like StandWithUs.
Jory Dayan, a Canadian-born settler who made aliyah and served in the IOF's Givati Brigade, participated in the settler-colonial military apparatus enforcing occupation, apartheid, and genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and beyond, contributing to the ongoing dispossession.
Michal Cotler-Wunsh is a Canadian-raised settler who completed the racist colonial project of Aliyah, enlisted in the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), served in the military apparatus of occupation and apartheid, and now whitewashes Israeli war crimes on a global platform.
Sagi Muki, retired Olympic judoka and illegal settler, collaborates with Zionist organizations like StandWithUs to echo atrocity propaganda, deny Israel's genocide and apartheid, and manufacture consent for the ongoing ethnic cleansing and occupation of Palestine.
Tsuriel Rashi is a Zionist academic and IOF Major who launders Israel's psychological warfare and genocide propaganda as "ethics," denies Palestinian suffering in Gaza, questions verified death tolls from Hamas-affiliated sources, and resistance with terrorism.
Dor Eliav is a senior lecturer for the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) who delivers indoctrinating briefings to combat battalions, including those actively engaged in the genocide in Gaza, openly calling to "crush Gaza to the ground" and "flatten Gaza" to justify genocide.
Yael Halevi-Wise, McGill University professor of English and Jewish Studies, served in the IOF, endorses her son's IOF service amid genocide, opposes BDS and pro-Palestine activism, and perpetuates Zionist conflation of Judaism with settler-colonialism to shield Israeli terror.
Yaakov Herman, a Canadian lone soldier in the IOF's Nachal Brigade, directly contributes to Israel's settler-colonial violence by enlisting in the occupying army, bolstering the machinery of apartheid and ethnic cleansing that displaces and slaughters Palestinians.
Jonathan Conricus, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former IOF international spokesperson, echoes Zionist propaganda that justifies settler-colonial violence and shields "Israel's" colony from accountability for its genocidal occupation in Palestine.
Mordechai (Mordy) Botnick, former IOF soldier and founder of Chayal el Chayal, recruits and supports foreign volunteers in the Israeli Occupation Forces, sustaining the settler-colonial military apparatus that enforces apartheid, occupation, and genocide against Palestinians.
Eliya Amoyal is an IOF soldier who is actively responsible for enforcing the decades-long settler-colonial project that has displaced indigenous Palestinians from their land since the Nakba and serves to perpetuate ongoing Israeli genocide, ethnic cleansing, and occupation.
Sacha Roytman, CEO of the Combat Antisemitism Movement, weaponizes accusations of antisemitism to shield Israel's settler-colonialism, genocide, and apartheid in Palestine while equating legitimate criticism of Zionist occupation with hatred of Jews to shield Israeli terrorism.
Yehuda Bessner is an illegal Canadian settler who made "Aliyah," joined the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) as a machine gunner in the Givati Brigade, and participated in the settler-colonial military apparatus enforcing apartheid and ethnic cleansing in occupied Palestine..
Menachem Freedman, a Canadian labour lawyer and former IOF lone soldier, served in an infantry unit patrolling the Gaza-Egypt border, enforcing the siege and occupation while framing his role in "humanitarian" terms that obscure settler-colonial violence and genocide.
Benjamin Brown, a Canadian lone soldier in the IOF's Golani Brigade, fought to enforce settler-colonial occupation in illegally held territories, following his brother's path in repressing Palestinians under apartheid, contributing to the perpetuation of genocide and occupation.
Mordechai "Moti" Almoz, former IOF Spokesperson and Head of Manpower Directorate, enforces settler-colonial occupation through Civil Administration in the West Bank, justifies prolonged genocidal assaults on Gaza as inevitable, and sanitises occupation, genocide and apartheid.
Nadav Elituv, a Canadian IOF veteran from Thornhill, Ontario, served in the settler-colonial Israeli military enforcing occupation and apartheid, while raising his son Noam to also join the IOF, normalizing participation in genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Julia Glushko, an Israeli tennis player born in Ukraine, participates in the Zionist settler-colonial project as an illegal settler who served in the Israeli Occupation Forces and produces propaganda videos that sportswash Israel's apartheid and genocide across Palestine.
Michael Domb is a Canadian Zionist who served in the IOF as a lone soldier and tank commander, glorifies his military service in the settler-colonial occupying army, and promotes support for Zionist institutions that sustain Israel's apartheid and genocide.
Gideon Sa'ar is a right-wing Israeli politician who opposes any two-state solution, champions annexation of West Bank settlements, and shields 'Israel's' apartheid policies from international scrutiny to entrench settler-colonialism across Palestine.
Daniel Dalfen, Toronto-born IOF veteran of the Kfir Brigade and former Bnei Akiva youth, completed the racist colonial project of Aliyah by enlisting in the occupation army to enforce military control over Indigenous Palestinians, then relocated to Canada.
Zev Faintuch is a Canadian Zionist settler-colonial participant who volunteered for the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) as a lone soldier, contributing directly to the enforcement of apartheid, occupation, and settler-colonial violence against Palestinians.
Tav Leyb, a young Canadian Zionist who participated in Aaliyah and joined the Israeli Occupation Forces, actively contributed to Israel's settler-colonial violence in Gaza through prolonged combat deployment to help perpetuate the genocide against Palestinians.
Robert Moisescu is a Canadian Zionist and former IOF lone soldier who publicly brags about killing Palestinians, threatens pro-Palestine demonstrators with further violence, and harasses advocates for justice — all behaviours that shield settler-colonial genocide across Palestine
Tomer Elimelech, a Canadian-origin IOF veteran in the Golani Brigade who made "Aaliyah" to colonize Palestine, now DJs in the settler state, perpetuating the normalization of apartheid, occupation, and settler-colonial violence that displaces and erases Palestinians.
Ari Halevi-Wise is a Canadian-born Zionist settler who joined the IOF to participate in Israel's settler-colonial occupation and genocide in Palestine, embodying the racist "Aaliyah" project by displacing indigenous Palestinians while enjoying safety in Canada.
Leon Mann, a former Canadian IOF combat infantry sergeant, celebrates Jewish summer camps as tools that groom youth for service in the settler-colonial military apparatus, downplays atrocities carried out by the IOF across Palestine and pushes for complete occupation and genocide
Assaf Lowengart, an Israeli professional baseball outfielder, served in the IOF, participates in Zionist sportswashing through Team Israel in international competitions, and propagates atrocity propaganda that justifies Israel's genocide and occupation across Palestine.
Robert Kohos, a Montreal-based real estate broker and former IOF lone soldier in combat intelligence, directly contributed to the machinery of Israeli settler-colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and the ongoing genocide in occupied Palestine before returning to Canada.
Jonathan Fader, a Canadian former IOF soldier in the Givati Brigade, participated in enforcing Israel's settler-colonial occupation from 2009-2011, later amplified Islamophobic fearmongering to urge Canadian Jews to arm themselves against perceived threats, and pushing Zionism.
Blessing Afrifah is an illegal settler and former IOF soldier who obtained Israeli citizenship despite Ghanaian parentage, affirmed his identity as an Israeli born in the colony, and represented the settler state in athletics to normalise occupation and genocide across Palestine.
Shlomo Aviner, a leading Religious Zionist rabbi and settler leader, dehumanises Palestinians by equating all Arabs with Hamas, endorses violence against non-Jews, and advises the IOF during operations in Gaza to shield settler-colonialism and perpetuate genocide in Palestine.
Shon Weissman is an illegal settler who weaponises his platform as a footballer to advance Zionist interests, amplify calls for genocidal violence against Palestinians, and affirm unwavering support for "Israel" — behaviours that help manufacture consent for Israeli occupation.
Major Yaniv Golan is an IOF company commander in the 22nd Carmeli Battalion who fought in Gaza for months, dehumanizes all Gaza residents as "the biggest Nazis" and the true enemy and advocates for ethnic cleansing through forced "emigration" to perpetuate Israel's occupation.
Noam Elituv, a Canadian who made "Aaliyah" and served in the IOF, contributes to Israel's settler-colonial violence by enlisting in its occupying army, bolstering the machinery of ethnic cleansing, land theft, and genocide in Palestine.
Shar Leyb is a Canadian settler who volunteered for the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), serving in the elite Duvdevan death squad that conducts extrajudicial executions and kidnappings of Palestinians by disguising as civilians and has repeatedly returned for deployments in Gaza
Noemi Di Segni, former UCEI president born in Jerusalem and former IOF member, advances recognition of "Israel" as central to Jewish identity while attacking critics of the occupation and equating Palestinian solidarity with hatred to sustain settler-colonial violence.
Yair Michael Lootsteen, a long-time legal advisor in the Israeli Occupation Forces and leader in Reform Zionism, participates in the Aaliyah settler-colonial project that steals Palestinian land and provides it to Jewish individuals, while using narratives of "coexistence."
Martin Gelb, former IOF soldier and participant in Zionist "Aaliyah," directly supported Israel's settler-colonial military apparatus through service in the occupying forces, perpetuating violence against Palestinians while returning to Canada to evade accountability.
Anat Lelior is an illegal settler and former IOF soldier who affirms pride in "Israel", glorifies military service, and promotes settler narratives of kindness to shield the occupation and genocide across Palestine.
Inbar Lanir, an Israeli Olympic silver medalist judoka and 2023 world champion, commits sportswashing for the Zionist settler-colonial project by proudly representing the illegal ethnostate in international competitions while dedicating her victories to the genocidal IOF.
Ilan Mann is a Canadian Zionist who volunteered as a soldier in the Israeli Occupation Forces and produces hasbara to minimize war crimes while glorifying service in the occupation army that enforces apartheid and carries out genocide across Palestine.
Negev Dagan was a Staff Sergeant in the Israeli Occupation Forces' Golani Brigade who advanced Zionist settler-colonial interests through his combat service in the 12th Battalion before being liquidated as a terrorist invading Lebanese land in 2026.
Lionel Kalles, a Canadian Zionist settler via the racist Aaliyah colonial project, persistently lobbied to join the IOF, served as a Border Patrol officer enforcing apartheid control over Palestinian areas, and actively supported the settler-colonial occupation and genocide.
Nir Bitton is an illegal settler and former IOF soldier who weaponises his platform to echo Zionist propaganda, attack pro-Palestine supporters, and join campaigns that shield Israel's genocide and occupation across Palestine.
Shai Kakon, Israeli Olympic athlete representing the settler-colonial state, echoes Zionist narratives through social media posts that conflate criticism of "Israel" with antisemitism and overlook decades of occupation to manufacture consent for genocide across Palestine.
Gashau Ayale is an illegal settler and former IOF soldier who represents "Israel" in international athletics, dedicates medals to the IOF, and normalises settler-colonialism by advancing Zionist sporting propaganda that shields the occupation and genocide across Palestine.
Pini Zahavi is an Israeli football agent who maintains offices in Tel Aviv within the settler colony and builds his wealth through high-profile player transfers, all behaviours that normalise the apartheid state and sustain the economic foundations of occupation and genocide.
Matan Poler is an "Israeli" settler and former IOF war criminal who lives in Tulsa with his wife Tali Kaplan, another settler and war criminal, and weaponises his platform in the Jewish Federation of Tulsa to glorify participation in the genocide across Palestine.
Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic who served as an IOF prison guard at Ktzi'ot Concentration Camp holding up to 1,000 Palestinian hostages during the First Intifada and continues to advance Zionist narratives that shield settler-colonialist genocide.
Tai Baribo, an Israeli international footballer who holds a Portuguese passport through Sephardi ancestry, uses his platform to affirm loyalty to the apartheid state and participate in Zionist solidarity campaigns that whitewash Israel's genocidal occupation across Palestine.
Gefen Primo is an Israeli judoka and illegal settler who served as a soldier in the IOF Air Force in 2019 with elite sportsperson status, weaponises her athletic platform to normalise the Zionist project, and publicly thanks the IOF to shield settler-colonialism and genocide.
Maor Kurevsky is an Israeli YouTuber and Twitch streamer known as Snacksss who served three years in the IOF Artillery Corps and partnered with Zionist organisations to promote Israeli national commemorations, thereby normalising settler-colonial violence and occupation.
Shahar Zubari is an illegal settler and former IOF soldier who participates in Zionist propaganda campaigns that whitewash settler-colonialism and justify Israel's ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing across Palestine.
Daniel Raab is an American-Israeli IOF sniper who serves in the Ghost Unit and carries out targeted killings of unarmed Palestinian civilians across Palestine while claiming to be a victim of antisemitism in order to evade responsibility for his direct participation in genocide.
Tal Erel is an illegal settler and former IOF soldier who commits sportswashing for "Israel" through repeated participation in "Team Israel" events and Zionist propaganda campaigns that normalise occupation and genocide across Palestine.
Laetitia Beck, an illegal settler born in Belgium and former IOF terrorist, weaponises her platform as a professional golfer to affirm Zionist settler-colonialism, echo atrocity propaganda, and normalise Israel's ongoing genocidal occupation and terrorism across Palestine.
Almog Harari, a terrorist from the IOF’s 432nd Battalion, participated in systematic destruction of Palestinian civilian infrastructure and forced displacement operations that advance the Zionist settler-colonial project and shield genocide from accountability.
Sergey Richter, an Israeli Olympic shooter and illegal settler, advances Zionist interests through national team representation and public alignment with Israeli symbols to manufacture consent for the ongoing occupation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide across Palestine.
Sivan Auerbach is an Israeli settler and indoor Track & Field athlete at Virginia Tech who served in the Israeli Occupation Forces before competing at U.S. universities, participating in the Zionist-aligned nicejewishrunners club, and pursuing Olympic representation for "Israel."
Artem Dolgopyat is a Ukrainian-born gymnast who immigrated to "Israel" at age twelve as an illegal settler, served as an IOF sergeant, joined the Zionist campaign "Hostages can’t speak. Sports speak up", and follows "Stand with us" to sportswash occupation and shield genocide.
Yehuda HaKohen, a West Bank settler and rabbi, advances Zionist settlement projects through residence in Beit El, IOF service, and Canary Mission contributions that normalise the displacement of indigenous Palestinians and sustain Israel's illegal occupation across Palestine.
Yuval Freilich is an illegal settler and former IOF soldier who competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics while affirming pride in representing "Israel", participated in events normalising the IOF, and thereby shields settler-colonialism while manufacturing consent for occupation.
Misha Zilberman is an illegal settler and former IOF soldier who represents "Israel" in international badminton, weaponises victimhood narratives to deflect from occupation and genocide, and normalises settler-colonialism through athletic propaganda.
Elie Tahari is an Israeli-American fashion designer who openly affirms his devotion to "Israel" and hosted a 2025 Miami runway show dedicated to female IOF soldiers — including wounded IOF war criminals— pledging online profits to support them and bolstering settler-colonialism.
Ellen Best, an Israeli settler born in Beersheba, served in the IOF Karkal unit before pursuing drag performances that launder the apartheid regime's image while Palestinians endure ongoing ethnic cleansing and occupation.
Maru Teferi, an Israeli athlete representing the Zionist entity in global competitions, advances settler-colonialism by publicly aligning with the IOF and normalising occupation through statements that shield "Israel" from accountability for its crimes against Palestinians.
Maor Tiyouri, an Olympic marathon runner and illegal settler, advances Zionist interests by serving in the IOF, posting messages of national strength during genocide, and marking the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as a cause for celebration to shield settler-colonialism.
Abraham Ahron Bluth is an Israeli Major General who heads the IOF Central Command and directs systematic settler-colonial violence against Palestinians across the occupied West Bank whilst implementing eased open-fire rules and collective punishment that sustain genocide.
Shachar Sagiv is an illegal settler and former IOF soldier who represents the Zionist entity as an Olympic triathlete, thereby normalising settler-colonialism and shielding Israel's genocide across Palestine from accountability.
Eran Zahavi is an illegal settler and former IOF soldier who has leveraged his career as a professional footballer to advance Zionist interests, echo propaganda that whitewashes settler-colonialism, and repeatedly affirm his allegiance to "Israel" alongside war criminals.
Avishag Semberg is a former IOF soldier and Olympic taekwondo bronze medalist who served in the Home Front Command, visited military bases in illegal West Bank settlements, and dedicated her achievements to the IOF to legitimise Israel's settler-colonial occupation and genocide.
Moni Aizik is a terrorist and war criminal who served in the IOF as an elite commando and founded Commando Krav Maga to train occupation forces in tactics that sustain settler-colonial violence against Palestinians.
Tamir Goodman is a former basketball player who immigrated to "Israel" as an illegal settler, served in the IOF, and engaged in sportswashing through professional play and camps to normalise the settler-colonial project and shield it from accountability for its genocide.
Noam Gershony, a Zionist settler and former IOF soldier turned Paralympic athlete, uses sports achievements and public campaigns to normalise Israel's apartheid regime, ethnic cleansing, and ongoing genocide while bragging about his military role in attacking Canaanite land.
Hanna Minenko is an Olympic triple jumper who secured Zionist citizenship through marriage in 2013, declared her love for "Israel" and the occupation, and publicly supported the IOF by preparing food packages for soldiers while backing "Hostages can’t speak. Sports speak up."
Isaac Nadoff is a Pittsburgh paramedic who enlisted as a combat medic with the IOF and deployed multiple times into Gaza to participate in the ongoing genocide across Palestine while advancing Zionist settler-colonialism.
Ofek Elimelech is an illegal settler and former IOF soldier who served in the Israeli Occupation Forces in 2015 and publicly posted about his military service on Instagram — all actions that normalise the occupation and contribute to the settler-colonial violence in Palestine.
Shelly Bobritsky, member of the Israeli artistic swimming team, advances settler-colonialism by participating in IOF service, promoting the "Hostages can’t speak. Sports speak up" campaign, and forming yellow-ribbon displays that manufacture consent for ongoing ethnic cleansing.
Betzalel Schneid, former commander of the 932nd Nahal Battalion, echoes Zionist atrocity propaganda by denying IOF war crimes in Gaza, smearing Palestinian education as incitement, and framing the occupation's violence as justified self-defence to perpetuate consent for genocide.
Adam Berdichevsky is a former IOF soldier who representw "Israel" at the Paralympics, served as a Paralympic flagbearer, and frames the al-Aqsa Flood as a massacre, all actions that shield ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing across Palestine.
Adam Maraana is an Olympic swimmer and former IOF soldier who represents "Israel" in international competitions whilst having served in Gaza, all behaviours that normalise the settler-colonial occupation, apartheid, and genocide inflicted upon Palestinians.
Erel Halevi is a Paralympic swimmer and illegal settler who served in the IOF navy in 2009 and framed her military participation as part of a normal life in the Zionist settler-colonial entity — all behaviours that legitimise the occupation and ongoing genocide across Palestine.
Moran Samuel, an illegal settler and former IOF soldier, weaponises her platform as a Paralympic athlete to echo Zionist propaganda that frames Palestinian resistance as terrorism, calls for global athletes to support "Israel's" genocide, and affirms ties to the IOF.
Eliad Cohen is an "Israeli" model, DJ, and producer who promotes the two-state illusion as a liberal Zionist whilst spreading Hasbarist propaganda that sanitises settler-colonialism and the ongoing genocide across Palestine.
Yogev Alcalay, an athlete representing the settler-colonial project, participated in the “Stand 4 Israel-Athletes” initiative and amplified pro-IOF content to shield "Israel" from accountability for its systematic violence against Palestinians.
Ami Dadaon is an 'Israeli' Paralympic swimmer who acts as an illegal settler and former IOF volunteer, advancing Zionist propaganda through campaigns that whitewash settler-colonialism and manufacture consent for genocide across Palestine.
Meiron Cheruti, an illegal settler and former IOF soldier, poses in military uniform and weaponises his platform as an Olympic swimmer to advance Zionist propaganda that shields settler-colonialism and normalises Israel's ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing across Palestine.
Ohad Naharin, a Batsheva Dance Company choreographer and illegal settler, channels his platform into fundraising for Standing Together and other groups that sustain Israel's apartheid regime while shielding the settler-colonial project from accountability.
Ofir Zilberstein, a former IOF platoon commander now operating in civilian roles, attempts to vouch for ethical IOF tactics whilst shielding the Zionist settler-colonial project and its ongoing genocide across Palestine from accountability.
Amit Hasdai is a former IOF soldier who competes as a Paralympic cyclist for "Israel". His past participation as an artillerist in violent war crimes and his current Paralympic profile help sustain occupation, genocide, and ethnic cleansing across Palestine.
Baruch Shmailov, an Israeli judoka and illegal settler who served in the IOF, donated to fellow settlers after October 2023, met war criminal Isaac Herzog, and follows StandWithUs to advance Zionist settler-colonialism and shield Israel's genocide across Palestine.
Adir Yiftach is an IOF terrorist masquerading as a medic who served in the 424th Infantry Battalion of the Givati Brigade during the Gaza genocide, documented his presence at sites of destruction across Palestine, and glorified devastation in archived social media posts.
Uri Levine, Waze co-founder, channels Israeli startup capital and military-linked expertise into tech ecosystems that reinforce the apartheid regime, while publicly framing Palestinian resistance as terrorism to shield ongoing genocide from scrutiny.
Michael Starr is a Jerusalem Post Diaspora affairs correspondent who weaponises accusations of antisemitism to shield the Zionist settler-colonial project whilst serving as an IOF veteran deployed during the ongoing genocide across Palestine.
Daniel Bouskila is the International Director of the Sephardic Educational Center who praises the Israeli Occupation Forces for thwarting Palestinian and German hijackers in the Entebbe raid and celebrates IOF heroes in a Jewish Journal column to help legitimise occupation.
Roy Oryon is a war criminal in the Israeli Occupation Forces who served as deputy company commander in the Golani Brigade, participated in the genocide across Palestine, and now engages in sportswashing through Zionist-funded marathons in Australia to normalise Israeli terrorism.
Shmulik Daniel is a Paralympic rower and illegal settler who served in the IOF's Egoz Unit before leveraging his sporting platform to normalise the occupation and advance settler-colonialism across Palestine.
Danielle Eden Scheinberg, founder of Dog Tales Rescue & Sanctuary, weaponises her non-profit to centre Zionism, ban volunteers who mention Palestine, and employ former IOF soldiers to normalise settler-colonialism and shielding 'Israel' from accountability for its genocide.
Amir Levi is an illegal settler and former IOF paratrooper who now competes for the Zionist entity in para badminton, thereby normalising apartheid and shielding settler-colonialism from accountability through international sports representation.
Tim McDermott, President of the Philadelphia Union, accepted former IOF soldier and illegal settler Tai Baribo into the club from 2023 to 2025 during the intensified genocide across Palestine, thereby committing sportswashing that legitimises the Zionist settler-colonial project.
Daniel Hanukayev, founder of the hasbara organisation Lions of Zion, weaponises social media and aliases to target advocates for Palestinian rights, thereby sustaining the settler-colonial structures that enable ongoing occupation and mass slaughter in Palestine.
Gerald Schwartz is a Canadian billionaire and Vice-Chair of the Sinai Health board who co-founded the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and the Heseg Foundation to fund lone soldiers serving in the IOF, all behaviours that help sustain Israel's settler-colonial project.
Paul Fletcher is a lobbyist and former Liberal MP for Bradfield who joined AIJAC Rambam trips to "Israel", denied its apartheid, attacked BDS advocates as "useful idiots for Hamas", and backed arms exports that sustain settler-colonial genocide across Palestine.
Ernst Tanner, Philadelphia Union Sporting Director, oversees the recruitment of Israeli players including former IOF soldier Tai Baribo to integrate settler-colonial figures into European and American sport and sustain the apartheid regime across Palestine.
Daniel Cukierman, a professional tennis player representing the Zionist settler-colonial entity, integrates his IOF service record and affiliations into his public identity to shield apartheid structures and sustain consent for the genocide across Palestine.
Nicol Zelikman, a former rhythmic gymnast who represented Israel in competitions while serving in the occupation forces, joined the "Hostages can’t speak. Sports speak up" campaign and manages property investments on stolen Palestinian land to normalise apartheid and occupation.
Tal Brody is Israel's Goodwill Ambassador, a former basketball player, and illegal settler who served in the IOF, committed sportswashing through Maccabi Tel Aviv, and aligned with Likud to shield "Israel's" settler-colonial project and ongoing genocide across Palestine.
Guy Niv, an Israeli former professional cyclist & IOF soldier, raced for the Israel team and joined the 'Hostages can't speak. Sports Speak Up' campaign in 2023--behaviours that help sportswash settler-colonialism and manufacture consent for 'Israel's' ongoing genocide.
Tzvi Kostiner is a right-wing rabbinical figure who heads the Midbara K’Eden Yeshiva in Mitzpe Ramon and shields settler-colonial violence by publicly urging the release of a convicted murderer of a Palestinian family while training students for the IOF.
Nili Block is an illegal settler and kickboxer born in Baltimore who weaponises her platform to promote "Israel"'s genocide across Palestine, raises funds for the IOF, and smears pro-Palestine movements as antisemitism to shield settler-colonial violence and ethnic cleansing.
Shlomo Lipetz is an illegal settler and former IOF soldier who commits sportswashing by pitching for "Team Israel" across multiple international tournaments and thereby helps normalise the Zionist settler-colonial project and ongoing genocide across Palestine.
Ari Greenwald is a Toronto emergency physician who bolsters "Israel's" settler-colonial medical infrastructure, recruits Canadian doctors to sustain the occupation, and provides parallel care to Jewish communities while receiving Zionist state recognition for these actions.
Romi Paritzki is a retired rhythmic gymnast who served in the IOF, posed smiling with a gun during her military service, and used her 2024 Olympic silver medal to sportswash the Zionist settler-colonial project and normalise occupation, apartheid, and genocide across Palestine.
Yehuda Nofech-Mozes, a pediatrician trained at Tel Aviv University, embedded himself in the IOF medical corps during intensified settler-colonial expansion, thereby normalising the occupation's infrastructure of control and violence over indigenous Palestinians.
Nimrod Marcus, an illegal settler who served in the IOF, used social media to normalise military life in occupied Palestinian territories and sustain the structures of settler-colonial violence that enable ongoing genocide.
Binny Hahn is an emergency room physician who founded and directs Milu-EM to recruit international doctors for the Israeli Occupation Forces' emergency preparedness, donates to Zionist organisations and schools, and sustains settler-colonial violence across Palestine.
Or Saadon is a software engineer and former IOF captain who joined a Zionist-organised delegation of IOF athletes to the Sydney Marathon, advancing sportswashing and obscuring the occupation's systematic disabling of Palestinians and genocide across Palestine.
Yael Zafarti, an AI Product Manager in Occupied Jaffa, advanced the settler-colonial project through Unit 8200 and participation in the Team Shalva delegation to Australia, where Zionist organisations funded efforts to launder IOF crimes amid protests over the ongoing genocide.
Oryan Omer, a software engineer formerly in the IOF Military Intelligence, participated in Team Shalva's 2026 Sydney Marathon delegation to launder the image of the Israeli Occupation Forces while the apartheid regime continues its genocide and ethnic cleansing across Palestine.
Tzachi Slutzky is an emergency medical doctor who leads Milu-EM in recruiting physicians to support "Israel's" occupation and raises funds for equipment that sustains the IOF's genocidal operations across Palestine.
Allan Billig, an American-born plastic surgeon, made "Aaliyah" to "Israel", served in the Israeli Occupation Forces Paratroopers Brigade, and collaborates with Canadian surgeons to normalise the occupation and ongoing genocide across Palestine.
The IOF has never been a moral army, let alone the ‘most moral.’ In fact, they originate from larger terrorist groups that reigned terror in Palestine and murdered hundreds and thousands of innocent men, women and children — and continue to do so to this day.
The insidious claim that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) represent the "most moral army in the world" is a blatant affront to the Palestinian people and an attempt to whitewash decades of human rights abuses, war crimes and the brutal suppression of Palestinian nationalism and identity.
This propagandistic myth constitutes an act of violent erasure against the immense suffering and resilience of the Palestinian people in the face of the colonial Zionist project to dispossess and displace them from their ancestral homeland. In reality, the factual record makes a mockery of this "moral army" fallacy.
The IDF and its predecessors have perpetrated horrific massacres against defenseless Palestinian villages like Deir Yassin and Al Dawayima, where women and children were raped, disembowels and burned alive. They have also repeatedly used Palestinian civilians, including children, as human shields; despite claiming it’s Hamas who do this.
Furthermore, the IOF have illegally abducted thousands of Palestinian children from their homes, tortured them and then subjected to sham military tribunals - with systemic practices of child abuse, both physical and sexual, carried out by the so-called "most moral army." Any attempt to lionize the IDF as a virtuous force is an abhorrent denial of the lived reality for Palestinians under its military occupation and colonial subjugation. It erases the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of villages in the Nakba, the wanton targeting of civilian areas under the Dahiya Doctrine, the extrajudicial executions of hostages and the myriad other well-documented atrocities and violations of international law committed by Israeli forces over decades.
Those who unquestioningly regurgitate this fallacy align themselves with the historical bloc of colonial powers who have sought to dominate, subjugate, and erase the national and human rights of indigenous peoples worldwide. They engage in the same rhetoric once used to justify settler-colonial projects like the Indian Removal Act, the wars of extermination against Native Americans, and other campaigns of ethnic cleansing and land theft prosecuted in the name of racial superiority and "civilizing" missions.
The enduring resilience, struggle, and activism of the Palestinian people against these criminal dehumanizing forces represent the highest moral ground. To condemn them while sanctifying their oppressors is a perverse obfuscation that can only be rooted in ideological discrimination. Any honest examination of the Israeli occupation's practices can only lead to the conclusion that the IDF's conduct has been a moral abomination, a stain upon human conscience that must be unanimously repudiated.
To perpetuate the odious lie of the "most moral army" mythology or to show the IOF support is to align oneself against the hard-won dignity and heroic resistance of the Palestinian people in word and deed. It is to abet injustice, turn a willfully blind eye to atrocity and act as an apologist for a ruthless and unrelenting campaign of ethnic persecution and dispossession in the name of racial supremacy.
It is, in essence, an egregious act of complicity in crimes against humanity and should be condemned as false propaganda at every turn.
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While boycotting Starbucks is warranted based on its unethical track record and it’s former CEO’s ties to Israeli cyber-surveillance firms, it should not be conflated with or represented as an official BDS campaign targeting companies complicit in occupied Palestinian territories.
Starbucks is not officially on the BDS boycott list for companies directly involved in oppressing Palestinians and so should not be targeted with the same intensity — doing so risks minimizing the focused work of Palestinian solidarity movements.
The reasoning behind the Starbucks boycott instead stems from its union-busting tactics and unethical business practices; namely sending cease-and-desist letters and filing lawsuits against pro-Palestinian voices within its workers' union.
While reprehensible, their silencing of protestors was an attempt to clamp down on union activism rather than a pro-Israel stance; in actuality, Starbucks has largely maintained a neutral corporate position on the Palestinian issue itself.
That being said, there are many legitimate ethical concerns with Starbucks worthy of boycott for reasons. These include issues around supply chain management, workers' rights, human rights violations, tax avoidance, environmental impacts, enabling factory farming practices and the investments of former CEO, Howard Schutlz.
Former CEO Howard Schultz's investments in Israeli cyber-surveillance firms like Wiz are also hugely problematic, especially as he has the 6th largest share of Starbucks with 21,795,538 shares (1.93%) valued at $1,991,894,218 as of 18/04/2024 — meaning he is directly benefiting monetarily from Starbucks. With this in mind, the act of visibly consuming Starbucks products has also taken on new symbolic meanings for some Zionist entities and individuals in the current political climate. As efforts to boycott companies complicit in Palestinian oppression gain momentum, publicly committing to consumerism has become a way for certain groups to overtly signal their rejection of such boycotts.
By ostentatiously patronizing Starbucks, certain individuals are attempting to declare their opposition to the non-violent economic pressure tactics employed by the Palestinian solidarity campaigns. This brandishing of Starbucks effectively co-opts the brand into a display of anti-Palestinian ideology, despite the company's official neutrality on the issue.
As such, the simple act of buying a Starbucks drink has been politicized as a statement against Palestinian rights by those who oppose the boycott efforts targeting the Israeli occupation.
For those who have passionately spoken out against other instances of genocide and massacres, yet fall silent when it comes to the suffering endured by Palestinians, their silence becomes a glaring indictment of the value placed on Palestinian lives and perpetuates a dangerous narrative that suggests Palestinian suffering is somehow less worthy of outrage, less deserving of empathy and less human than that of others.
By choosing silence in the face of Palestinian suffering, those with influential platforms inadvertently contribute to the erasure of Palestinian voices and experiences. They perpetuate a narrative of invisibility that allows the injustices inflicted upon Palestinians to continue unabated, shielded from the spotlight of global scrutiny.
Their silence sends a chilling message of complicity to the world – one that suggests Palestinian lives are expendable, their struggles inconsequential and their humanity negotiable. It emboldens perpetrators of violence and oppression, granting them impunity under the guise of indifference.
To remain silent in the face of Palestinian suffering is to betray the very essence of activism – the relentless pursuit of justice for all, without exception or equivocation. It’s a betrayal not only of the Palestinian people but of the universal principles of human dignity and equality and instead is a tacit endorsement of the dehumanization and marginalization of an entire population.
True activism demands consistency and integrity, an unwavering commitment to speaking truth to power and standing in solidarity with the marginalized and oppressed, regardless of geography or politics.
The BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement is a global campaign which follows the worldwide boycott movement that led to the successful dismantling of apartheid in South Africa and therefore advocates for various sustained forms of boycott against Israel until it complies with international law.
Founded as a response to the rampant, ongoing and systemic dispossession, displacement, and disenfranchisement endured by generations of Palestinians, the BDS movement is in direct response to the relentless expansion of Israeli settlements, the imposition of discriminatory laws and the denial of basic rights to millions living under occupation, apartheid or in exile with no right of return.
Central to the ethos of BDS is the belief that every purchase and action carries a weighty moral responsibility. To buy goods from or actively support companies or organizations on the BDS list is to cast a vote in favor of perpetuating injustice, a tacit endorsement of the status quo of occupation and discrimination. It’s a direct violation of the collective conscience, a betrayal of the fundamental principles of human rights and dignity.
By pressuring Israel and its supporters by withdrawing support and capital, humanity aims to bring awareness to — and ultimately — end the occupation of Palestine, grant equal rights to all Palestinians and recognize the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes. This pressure also extends to any individuals and entities found to be complicit in the normalization, funding or support of Israel’s brutal occupation and 75+ years of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Denying the reality of the Nakba as a well-documented and verifiable ethnic cleansing and instead framing it as a consequence of a war lost by Palestinians is not only a gross distortion of history but also a deliberate attempt to absolve Israel of its responsibility for the atrocities committed against Palestinians.
The Nakba, which translates to “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the systematic expulsion and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes during the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
This revisionist narrative seeks to sanitize Israel’s actions and downplay the deliberate policies of expulsion and dispossession that were enacted against the Palestinian population and serves only to perpetuate a narrative of Israeli victimhood while erasing the suffering and trauma endured by Palestinians for generations.
In fact, this perpetuation and echoing of Zionist lies works to systematically invalidate the Palestinian lived experience and diminishing the atrocious loss of land, homes, culture, livelihoods and statehood experienced by generations of Palestinians at the hands of the state of Israel. By normalizing the complete eradication of Palestine and its Palestinian inhabitants, this revisionist lens reinforces the notion that the dispossession and marginalization of Palestinians (in violation of international law) is acceptable and justified when the reality couldn’t be further from the truth.
Anyone rejecting the reality of the very real and active genocide in Palestine is not only denying decades of dehumanization and erasure of Palestinians but also turning a blind eye to the blatant systemic oppression documented by reputable institutions.
The Institute of Genocide Studies, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, genocide survivors and even international bodies like the World Court have all recognized credible evidence of genocide — with their statements only corroborated by multiple reputable organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, Save the Children, Al-Haq and Euro-Med Watch.
”The Lemkin Institute believes that the annihilation of approximately 1% of the total population of the Gaza Strip, which stands at 2.3 million people, including entire generations of Palestinians, and the infliction of “severe bodily” and “mental harm” upon the Palestinian population at large, which will result in the majority suffering life-changing injuries and psychological trauma, taken together with the persistent and pervasive genocidal rhetoric as manifested by Israeli officials, particularly within decision making circles, as well as by segments of Israeli society at large, against the Palestinian group “as such,” amounts to the commission of genocide, as outlined in Article II (a) and (b) of the UNGC and Article 6 (a) and (b) of the Rome Statute.” - The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
”By analysing the patterns of violence and Israel’s policies in its onslaught on Gaza, this report concludes that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met. One of the key findings is that Israel's executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally distorted jus in bello principles, subverting their protective functions, in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.” - Francesca Albanese, Human Rights Council, 2024
“I am going to bed tonight in full certainty that as I sleep, Israel, a member state of the UN, abetted, armed, and egged on by the US and the other G-7 countries that rule the world, is committing genocide in Gaza” - Jeff Halper, ICAHD, 2023
”The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Al Mezan, and Al-Haq, vehemently denounce the initiation of the ground invasion by the Israeli military into eastern Rafah. This egregious act stands as a stark testament to the failure of the international community to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza, as per their legal obligations, and compel Israel to adhere to the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).” - PCHR, Al Mezan, Al-Haq
”The ICJ in its provisional measures order ruled that some of Israel's actions constitute a “plausible claim of genocidal acts”. The international community continues to be bound by their obligations under international humanitarian law, and the ICJ ruling, to ensure Palestinians are protected. Whenever we learn lessons from the past, we resolve to never again let “atrocity crimes” unfold. The test is now right in front of us. Children are being starved while trucks of food are denied access and continued fighting prevent delivery of the little aid coming into Gaza. We are failing that test.” - Save the Children
“After reviewing the facts established by independent human rights monitors, journalists, and United Nations agencies, we conclude that Israel’s actions in and regarding Gaza since October 7, 2023, violate the Genocide Convention.” - University Network For Human Rights
Additional evidence, statements of incitement and information can also be found at:
Denying the existence of apartheid in Palestine not only disregards decades of overwhelming evidence but also minimizes, perpetuates and attempts to erase the injustice and suffering faced by Palestinians.
The reality of apartheid in Palestine has been extensively documented by reputable organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, Save the Children, Al-Haq, and Euro-Med Watch. These organizations have highlighted discriminatory laws, policies, and practices that systematically oppress Palestinians, depriving them of basic rights and freedoms.
In fact, the apartheid regime in Palestine is characterized by segregated infrastructure, unequal access to resources and institutionalized discrimination reminiscent of the apartheid era in South Africa. This has only further been consolidated by statements from renowned specialists and institutions, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the United Nations, who have both condemned Israel’s policies as apartheid.
Archbishop Tutu, a renowned anti-apartheid activist, has drawn parallels between the oppression faced by Palestinians and the apartheid regime in South Africa; while the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has expressed concern over Israel’s discriminatory practices and called for an end to apartheid policies like the construction of the apartheid wall for years.
“Israel has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole. Aware of the seriousness of this allegation, the authors of the report conclude that available evidence establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that Israel is guilty of policies and practices that constitute the crime of apartheid as legally defined in instruments of international law.” - UNESCWA, March 2017
“Israeli authorities have deprived millions of people of their basic rights by virtue of their identity as Palestinians. These longstanding policies and systematic practices box in, dispossess, forcibly separate, marginalize, and otherwise inflict suffering on Palestinians. In the OPT, movement restrictions, land expropriation, forcible transfer, denial of residency and nationality, and the mass suspension of civil rights constitute “inhuman[e] acts” set out under the Apartheid Convention and the Rome Statute. Under both legal standards, inhumane acts when carried out amid systematic oppression and with the intent to maintain domination make up the crime against humanity of apartheid.” - HRW, 2021
“This is apartheid. Israel imposes a system of oppression and domination against Palestinians across all areas under its control: in Israel and the OPT, and against Palestinian refugees, in order to benefit Jewish Israelis. This amounts to apartheid as prohibited in international law. Laws, policies and practices which are intended to maintain a cruel system of control over Palestinians, have left them fragmented geographically and politically, frequently impoverished, and in a constant state of fear and insecurity.” - Amnesty International, 2022
“The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) strongly condemns Israel’s laws, policies and practices of racial segregation, persecution and apartheid against the indigenous Palestinian population in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), comprising the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and against Palestinian refugees.” - ICJ, 2022
“Israel’s 55-year occupation of Palestinian Territory is apartheid” - OHCHR, 2022
“The conclusion of this legal opinion is that the crime against humanity of apartheid is being committed in the West Bank. The perpetrators are Israelis, and the victims are Palestinians.” - Yesh Din, June 2020
“The law's distinct apartheid characteristics guarantee Israel’s ethnic-religious character as exclusively Jewish, while anchoring discrimination and racism against Palestinian citizens.” - Adalah, 2020
“This is apartheid.” - ICAHD, 2023
This individual has also either engaged in, shared or celebrated Islamophobia by perpetuating particularly egregious and dangerous stereotypes about Muslims, such as labeling them as terrorists and predators, or making baseless and dangerous allegations based on religion.
We condemn this as wholeheartedly as we do anti-semitism, and you should too because, as most of you know, our movement is a space for collective liberation and justice where all individuals are afforded the same freedoms, human rights and liberties as others. We will not stand by as either or any religion is demonized, vilified and misrepresented by the actions of a select few.
For decades, leading political figures and racist factions have tried to equate Islam with terrorism, extremism or criminal behavior, and we reject that notion wholeheartedly. This deceptive claim seeks to demonize and dehumanize Muslims by falsely asserting an intrinsic connection between Islam and violence when this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Islamophobia serves to both ignore and erase the diversity and richness of Islamic beliefs and practices and instead reduces them to dangerous stereotypes that negate the true beauty of Islam. To perpetuate these falsehoods is to perpetuate discrimination and hatred against Muslim communities, endangering their safety and well-being in an already politically charged climate.
If you ever witness any discrimination, bigotry, or racism in any form, we encourage you to always call it out, interrupt it (when safe to do so), and continue supporting your fellow humans in achieving freedom for all.
The systematic erasure of Palestinian history and culture is a well-documented effort that has been ongoing since the early 1900s. This erasure has taken many forms, including the destruction of physical records and infrastructure, the suppression of Palestinian voices and narratives, the appropriation of Palestinian cultural heritage and most visibly, the dehumanization of the Palestinian populace.
From the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, Palestinian records, literature, and cultural heritage faced deliberate and concerted efforts to obliterate their existence and narrative. This deliberate "archival silencing" has made reconstructing this period in Palestinian history incredibly challenging, yet the truths that remain paint a horrifying picture of the deliberate erasure and destruction of an entire population and its culture.
The dehumanization of Palestinians has been a deliberate policy, perpetuated through military operations, discriminatory laws, Israeli education and a pervasive culture that fosters prejudice. Dehumanising rhetoric, portraying Palestinians as "roaches" and "rats," lays the foundation for atrocities by stripping away their humanity in the eyes of the oppressor.
Widespread media narratives also project institutional biases ranging from depicting Palestinians solely as militants or desperate victims and erasing their normal daily life to embedding language biases around land, protests and resistance tactics. These patterns collectively indicate how public discourse within segments of Israeli society systematically dehumanize Palestinians while entrenching prejudices against them.
The IOF has never been a moral army, let alone the ‘most moral.’ In fact, they originate from larger terrorist groups that reigned terror in Palestine and murdered hundreds and thousands of innocent men, women and children — and continue to do so to this day.
The insidious claim that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) represent the "most moral army in the world" is a blatant affront to the Palestinian people and an attempt to whitewash decades of human rights abuses, war crimes and the brutal suppression of Palestinian nationalism and identity.
This propagandistic myth constitutes an act of violent erasure against the immense suffering and resilience of the Palestinian people in the face of the colonial Zionist project to dispossess and displace them from their ancestral homeland. In reality, the factual record makes a mockery of this "moral army" fallacy.
The IDF and its predecessors have perpetrated horrific massacres against defenseless Palestinian villages like Deir Yassin and Al Dawayima, where women and children were raped, disembowels and burned alive. They have also repeatedly used Palestinian civilians, including children, as human shields; despite claiming it’s Hamas who do this.
Furthermore, the IOF have illegally abducted thousands of Palestinian children from their homes, tortured them and then subjected to sham military tribunals - with systemic practices of child abuse, both physical and sexual, carried out by the so-called "most moral army." Any attempt to lionize the IDF as a virtuous force is an abhorrent denial of the lived reality for Palestinians under its military occupation and colonial subjugation. It erases the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of villages in the Nakba, the wanton targeting of civilian areas under the Dahiya Doctrine, the extrajudicial executions of hostages and the myriad other well-documented atrocities and violations of international law committed by Israeli forces over decades.
Those who unquestioningly regurgitate this fallacy align themselves with the historical bloc of colonial powers who have sought to dominate, subjugate, and erase the national and human rights of indigenous peoples worldwide. They engage in the same rhetoric once used to justify settler-colonial projects like the Indian Removal Act, the wars of extermination against Native Americans, and other campaigns of ethnic cleansing and land theft prosecuted in the name of racial superiority and "civilizing" missions.
The enduring resilience, struggle, and activism of the Palestinian people against these criminal dehumanizing forces represent the highest moral ground. To condemn them while sanctifying their oppressors is a perverse obfuscation that can only be rooted in ideological discrimination. Any honest examination of the Israeli occupation's practices can only lead to the conclusion that the IDF's conduct has been a moral abomination, a stain upon human conscience that must be unanimously repudiated.
To perpetuate the odious lie of the "most moral army" mythology or to show the IOF support is to align oneself against the hard-won dignity and heroic resistance of the Palestinian people in word and deed. It is to abet injustice, turn a willfully blind eye to atrocity and act as an apologist for a ruthless and unrelenting campaign of ethnic persecution and dispossession in the name of racial supremacy.
It is, in essence, an egregious act of complicity in crimes against humanity and should be condemned as false propaganda at every turn.
The malicious characterisation of the Palestinian Intifadas as acts of "terrorism" and "genocide" represents an insidious attempt to delegitimise and demonise the struggle for Palestinian self-determination and liberation from Israeli occupation. The Intifadas represented grassroots Palestinian rebellion against decades of Israeli occupation and were characterised by nonviolent demonstrations and civil disobedience centred around boycotts, tax strikes, protests, and other measures focused against the occupation.
It was only after intense oppression from Israeli forces that resulted in the brutal massacre of approximately 1,100 innocent Palestinians, many of them women and children, that protestors adopted more violent tactics, still limiting themselves to throwing stones and molotov cocktails in the face of intense military aggression and force. Similarly, 3,350 Palestinians would also later be slaughtered by Israelis during the second intifada, with tens of thousands more gravely injured, once again showing the violent and oppressive response innocent Palestinian civilians faced when protesting for their basic human rights and liberties.
It is important, however, to remember that according to the UN charter of 1948, UN General Assembly Resolution 2625 from 1970, Protocol 1, an amendment to the 1949 Geneva Convention, UN General Assembly Resolution 37/43 from 1982, and UN General Assembly Resolution 38/17 from 1983, the people of Palestine have the legal right to resist apartheid, occupation, and genocide using any and all means at their disposal, including violent armed resistance. Under the same laws and statutes, Israel has no legal right to "self-defence."
Therefore, the malicious characterisation of the Palestinian Intifadas as acts of "terrorism" and "genocide" represents an insidious attempt to delegitimise and demonise the struggle for Palestinian self-determination and liberation from Israeli occupation. To equate these cries for emancipation with "terrorism" or “genocide” is a purposeful act of dehumanisation that seeks to disparage and silence the Palestinian cause and render the victims of occupation and institutionalised racism as the aggressors, whilst sanctifying and absolving the state that has systematically stripped them of their homeland, rights and dignity through unrelenting violence, subjugation and displacement.
This documented pattern of falsely equating the Intifada with terrorism sustains the structures of settler-colonialism by inverting the roles of oppressor and oppressed and manufacturing consent for the ongoing genocide across Palestine.
The purposeful distortion of the phrase "from the river to the sea" as a call for terrorism, genocide, and the expulsion of Jewish people constitutes a malicious act of disinformation designed to diminish the Palestinian struggle for human rights and self-determination. This inflammatory misrepresentation willfully misconstrues the fundamental meaning behind the expression as a vision of comprehensive freedom and dignity for all people living between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea.
Contrary to these slanderous accusations, the invocation of "from the river to the sea" represents an emancipatory ideal - the aspiration that all inhabitants of historic Palestine, regardless of ethnicity or faith, may one day live in peace, justice and equality. It articulates the hope that oppression, discrimination, and subjugation will be dismantled, giving way to a society where neither colonial dispossession nor segregation determine the fates and rights of any of its peoples.
To falsely conflate this uplifting prospect with genocide is an unconscionable act of propaganda that seeks to demonize the perfectly justifiable demands of the Palestinian people. It paints their yearning to overcome Israel's racist apartheid laws, draconian military occupation, and systemic oppression as somehow tantamount to the very injustices they continue to resist after decades of dehumanizing persecution.
Those crying "genocide" at this call for universal liberties are engaging in a cynical form of projection, perhaps of their own heinous beliefs and views as evidenced in the Likud party’s charter, where they claim ‘from the river to the sea, there will only be Israeli sovereignty’ - accusing their vulnerable victims of desiring the very atrocities that have been perpetrated against them.
Under Zionist occupation, it is the Palestinian people who have endured ethnic cleansing, massacres, land confiscation, and institutionalized discrimination under Israel's regime of supremacy. Their invocations of freedom "from the river to the sea" represent an end to such crimes against humanity, not their perpetration.
This wilful smear is an act of complicity in the continued denial of Palestinian humanity, identity, and rights. It is a shameless tactic to discredit the justness and beauty of their anti-colonial and anti-racist strivings by painting a venerable cause as something untenable and malevolent. In reality, it is those perpetuating occupation, apartheid, and displacement of the indigenous Palestinian people who are advancing the true forces of oppression and ethnic supremacy in the region.
To insist that this emancipatory vision equates to the expulsion of Jewish citizens is also a vicious deception that reinforces a paradigm of segregation and discrimination. The river to the sea idiom seeks the liberation of all peoples within historic Palestine - liberation that is fundamentally incompatible with any form of ethnic expulsion or supremacy.
Instead, it imagines a society where one's ethno-religious identity neither precludes their equality nor human and civil rights, regardless of whether they are Palestinians, Israelis, Jews, Muslims, Christians or any other component of the diverse populace.
At its core, the river to the sea idiom gives a powerful voice to the universal yearning to dismantle all forms of racist oppression, institutionalized discrimination and denial of inalienable human rights.
To brand this righteous civic ideal as genocidal or an affront to Jewish existence is a crass attempt to invert reality and defame those demanding justice, freedom and pluralistic coexistence for all the people of the land. It is a bad-faith rhetorical strategy designed to perpetuate a status quo of subjugation and ethnic domination by falsely portraying the victims as aggressors and oppressors.
The reprehensible act of smearing and inciting violence against pro-Palestinian protesters – even indirectly – represents dangerous attempts to silence advocacy for human rights and suppress criticism of the oppressive policies enacted against the Palestinian people. These unconscionable tactics seek to delegitimize and demonize those standing in solidarity with the struggles against occupation, apartheid, and the denial of self-determination.
By characterizing these demonstrations as violent hate-marches not only serves as an attempt to smear demonstrators in the eyes of the general public but also gaslight them into questioning their own actions. When combined with the false narrative around how these spaces are “unsafe” for Jewish individuals, played up only by inflammatory and incendiary terms like “no go zones” to further divide the movement and block meaningful mass organising between the different pro-Palestinian, anti-genocide and anti-Zionist movements.
This provides a smokescreen to justify forcibly disrupting and violating the fundamental civil liberties of peaceful protestors and conflates lawful expressions of dissent with threats to public order, falsely portraying those decrying injustice as provocateurs and aggressors in need of subjugation by state forces.
This defamatory rhetoric has routinely been deployed by authoritarian regimes throughout history to discredit challengers to their unjust systems of domination and marginalization. By cynically equating criticism of state misconduct with impending chaos, the powerful can recast efforts to hold them accountable as threats to societal stability requiring violent suppression. These divisive strategies are no different to the age-old tactics employed by colonial regimes who label the colonized as terrorists for taking up arms in their quest for liberation.
Those who peddle such dangerous rhetoric against Palestinian activists engage in an obstruction of truth and an assault on the sacrosanct rights of free speech, free assembly and freedom of conscience. They provide ethical and rhetorical cover for the repression of noble grassroots movements born of moral outrage in the face of subjugation and apartheid policies.
This results in the violent suppression of voices by police regimes, a reality we’re already seeing unfold before our very eyes across the global north. While it’s predominantly only extremist individuals committing acts of violence against their peers who are choosing to protest against the active genocide, it’s a worrying trend that should be
Any claims of such demonstrations being “inconvenient” or “not winning any hearts” only demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of the core tenets of protests, civil disobedience and the philosophy behind demonstrations. Protests, in their very nature, are intended to disrupt and cause inconvenience, because at the end of the day, they’re a community’s desperate efforts to get their peers to listen, pay attention and take direct action.
By instead ignoring these calls to action and discussing how the protests affect you personally, you not only undermine the wider collective’s efforts but shift focus away from the core goal of saving lives and ensuring equality for all.Defenders of the indefensible find themselves resorting to such duplicitous vilification because they cannot counteract substantive criticism of the injustices and human rights violations they enable through truthful argument and moral reasoning. Smears and incitements become their only available tactics to obfuscate and deflect righteous condemnation.
Those genuinely committed to democratic values and universal human rights must firmly resist such ignoble efforts to denigrate and endanger pro-Palestinian demonstrators. In reality, portraying pro-Palestinian solidarity as an incitement of violence is, in itself, an incitement against the nonviolent civil resistors who represent the continued march toward universal freedom, dignity, and adherence to international law. This vilification of protestors is merely a desperate attempt to preserve an outmoded ethnonationalist order through the weaponization of misinformation and undemocratic physical force.
While the Jewish faith and cultural identity not only long predate and but have no inherent connection to the racist political ideology of Zionism, the modern Israeli regime has deliberately pursued an ethnic supremacist agenda rooted in Jewish ethno-religious identity — yet built upon the demolition of Palestinian homes, the theft of Palestinian lands and the generational uprooting, displacement and dehumanization of the Palestinian people at large.
The harrowing cost of human suffering, loss of life and deprivation of the most basic liberties and security has been unconscionable and now, Zionism represents an utterly deplorable ethnic supremacist ideology that has enabled unconscionable acts of violence, displacement and subjugation against the Palestinian people for almost a century.
Its real-world impacts have been nothing short of a calculated campaign of ethnic cleansing, cultural erasure and apartheid racism - a horrific legacy that cannot be decoupled from Zionism's founding vision of creating an exclusionary Jewish ethno-state through the denial of Palestinian self-determination and indigeneity.
The forced expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians from their ancestral homes and villages during the Nakba, rendering millions stateless and exiled as refugees, was an act of premeditated ethnic purging. With the willful destruction of Palestinian property, demolition of homes, uprooting of ancient olive groves, and obliteration of cultural resources further demonstrating a systematic effort to erase Palestinian identity, history and any enduring claims to the land.
Subsequent decades have seen this brutal ethnic persecution, land confiscation and denial of human rights institutionalized through severely discriminatory policies, illegal settlements, violence by occupying forces, arbitrary detentions, torture, and most notably, systemic oppression under Israel's racist apartheid regime.
These are not mere "realities" for Palestinians who remain, but grave crimes against humanity perpetrated through Zionism's new brand of unrelenting, institutionalized cruelty. This utterly shameful legacy of calculated ethnic cleansing, apartheid governance and flagrant violations of international law is inextricably intertwined with how Zionism's racist, supremacist and anti-democratic ideology has been implemented on the ground by Israel.
Any attempt to decouple or whitewash these egregious atrocities from Zionism itself is a form of explicit denialism and complicity in oppression of the highest order. No ethnic, religious or any other group deserves an ethno-supremacist theocratic state constructed through the forcible subjugation of indigenous populations as second-class citizens stripped of all rights, dignity and humanity.
Such an abhorrent exclusionary system based on racial hierarchy is fundamentally incompatible with even the barest notion of true democracy, self-determination or universal human rights regardless of ethnicity or faith.
Statehood, sovereignty and self-determination can never legitimately emerge from such systematic violence, discrimination, forced displacement and ethnic persecution as political Zionism has perpetrated against the Palestinian population.
If a state were to arise organically through democratic processes that enshrine equality, safety and liberty for all citizens regardless of ethnicity or faith, it would have legitimacy. But any racist system of ethnic domination erected through brute force subjugation and calculated ethnic supremacy, as Zionism has done, is an egregious affront to justice and human rights that requires being dismantled - not enshrined - with a new equitable path forward established.
This individual has used their voice and platform to echo and amplify egregious Zionist lies but also perpetuate the subjugation, torture, brutalisation and murder inflicted by the Israeli-occupation of Palestinian and its attempts to erase Palestinian identity, culture, heritage and statehood. [1] [2] [3] [4]
These egregious and dangerous lies MAY include but are not limited to: [5]
Spreading misinformation and hateful propaganda against Palestinians is a deplorable act of dehumanization that directly enables human rights abuses, ethnic cleansing and violence against the Palestinian people. [35] [36] [37] [38]
By employing such malicious tactics to deny Palestinian realities and whitewash war crimes, home demolitions and the systematic deprivation of human rights under military occupation, this individual has provided racist cover for 75+ years of subjugation. [39] [[40]] (https://www.un.org/unispal/document/human-rights-situation-in-opt-unohchr-23feb-2024/)
This misinformation doesn't just distort the truth, it actively endangers Palestinian lives and inflames hatred, justifies atrocities like the active genocide and obstructs any path to justice through the wilful erasure of the Palestinian lived experience. [41] [42] [43]
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For decades, the minimization and denial of Palestinian suffering, torture and murder under the apartheid and genocidal Israeli-regime has been used as a way to justify the subjugation, occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
These categorically false and dangerous allegations, often dubbed ‘Pallywood’ have been wielded by Zionists against Palestinians in a systematic, sustained and decades-long smear campaign accusing Palestinians of fabricating or staging events to garner sympathy and manipulate international opinion.
"Pallywood" itself is an insidious Israeli-constructed myth designed to discredit legitimate Palestinian suffering and resistance that gained prominence in the early 2000s, particularly after the Israeli-violence against protestors in the Second Intifada.
During this period, graphic images and videos depicting the harsh realities of the Israeli occupation began to circulate widely, drawing global attention and condemnation — most notably, the broadcast murder of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah who became a powerful symbol of Palestinian suffering.
Israeli responses included attempts to discredit such footage, claiming that many were staged or manipulated—a narrative that culminated in the creation of "Pallywood." By attempting to frame Palestinians as dishonest and manipulative, this deplorable lie serves to undermine their credibility and shift the focus away from the substantive issues of well-documented, well-verifiable and very real international law violations, ethnic cleansing and human rights abuses enacted against Palestine by Israel.
This egregious rhetoric is exactly that, a dehumanising lie that seeks to delegitimize an entire people's struggle for justice and self-determination and has included fallacies like:
The systematic weaponization of the insidious mass rape hoax enabled by Israeli military intelligence and uncritically amplified by western media represents an egregious and systematic effort to not only slander the Palestinian resistance based on heinous misinformation but seemingly manufacture a pseudojustification for Israel's exterminatory oppression of Palestinians in Gaza that has rightly been condemned as a genocide by human rights groups.
The reality that claims of widespread, systematic rape by Hamas and other Palestinian groups on October 7th were fabricated by Israeli officials and their supporters has been extensively documented by reputable journalists, human rights groups and even the United Nations itself.
As UN Special Representative Pramila Patten admitted, her team "did not find anything like" the horrific fabrications of "objects like knives inserted in the genitalia" that were widely circulated, labeling them "inaccurate and unreliable forensic interpretations by some non-professionals." Her report stated bluntly: "In the medicolegal assessment of available photos and videos, no tangible indications of rape could be identified."
In fact, the mass rape hoax weaponized by Israel is characterized by distorted witness accounts, lack of photographic/video proof, contradictory claims that unraveled under scrutiny, and the reliance on discredited sources with ties to Israeli military intelligence.
The unraveling of this insidious hoax is only further exemplified by The New York Times itself being forced to debunk one of the most horrific allegations from its own prior reporting. Video evidence revealed that claims of two Israeli teenagers being sexually assaulted were completely false, showing "the bodies of three female victims fully clothed and with no apparent signs of sexual violence."
This harrowing hoax has been laid bare by comprehensive reports from organizations like Mondoweiss, The Grayzone, and even the UN special representative on sexual violence Pramila Patten — all of whom have debunked sensational stories, highlighted the lack of any credible evidence and exposed how this propaganda was weaponized to drum up support for Israel's relentless assault on Gaza.
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By visiting Israel, individuals actively endorse and support a regime built on systemic oppression and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians through settler colonial terrorism. These visitors are complicit in legitimizing and normalizing a brutal apartheid system recognized and condemned by numerous international bodies, including the United Nations, the ICJ, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. [1] [2] [3]
Visitors to Israel tacitly approve severe restrictions on Palestinian movement, land confiscations, home demolitions, and the devastating blockade on Gaza, which has created catastrophic humanitarian conditions. These are not mere allegations but documented realities. The apartheid system privileges Israeli settlers while subjecting Palestinians to systemic discrimination and violence, with segregated roads, military checkpoints, and a separation barrier that fragments Palestinian communities and restricts their freedom. [4] [5] [6]
Tourism economically supports the state, indirectly funding the military occupation and the infrastructure of apartheid, including illegal settlements and state violence. Without acknowledging or engaging with the Palestinian experience, visitors normalize and legitimize these oppressive practices. [7] The financial impact of tourism cannot be understated. [8] Visitors who spend money in Israel bolster the systems of oppression that deny Palestinians their basic human rights. This financial support funds the Israeli military and infrastructure supporting illegal settlements. [9]
Programs like Birthright trips further legitimize the subjugation of Palestinians by promoting a one-sided narrative that erases the realities of occupation and apartheid, falsely presenting Israel as a safe and welcoming homeland for Jews while ignoring Palestinian suffering and dispossession. [10] [11] [12]
Visitors to Israel without a critical perspective are complicit in the violence and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. They lend credibility to a regime widely condemned for its discriminatory practices and human rights violations. By choosing to visit Israel, these individuals endorse a state that systematically violates international law and human rights, contributing to the ongoing suffering and dispossession of the Palestinian people.
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These insidious allegations, deployed with increasing frequency, are damaging not only the pro-Palestinians accused but also to Jewish communities worldwide. [1] [2] By weaponizing antisemitism to justify occupation and apartheid, Zionists dilute the term and weaken genuine efforts to combat antisemitism. [3] [4] [5]
Labeling anyone who opposes Israel's genocidal regime as antisemitic also implicitly assumes all Jews support Israel’s policies, a notion that’s fundamentally untrue, offensive and truly dangerous to the hundreds of thousands of Jewish individuals and scholars who actively oppose Zionism and Israel’s human rights violations. [6] Accusing anyone who stands against Israel of antisemitism is, however, a core psychological warfare strategy used by genocidal Israeli supporters to delegitimize and demonize the very valid and much needed pro-Palestinian movement. [[7]] (https://palestinelegal.org/distorted-definition) [8] [9]
Disrespecting the Memory of Jewish Suffering Weaponizing antisemitism to protect Israel’s policies disrespects the historical suffering of Jewish communities by using their trauma as a political tool. The Shoah and the pogroms preceding it were horrifying atrocities, rooted in the dehumanization of an entire people. Using the memory of such atrocities to silence critics of modern-day apartheid practices disrespects the very principles for which so many Jewish people fought after the Holocaust: “Never Again” should mean opposition to all forms of oppression, including that enacted by the Israeli state. [10]
In November 2024, for example, tensions escalated in Amsterdam when Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were recorded chanting “Death to all Arabs” and “There are no schools in Gaza because all the children are dead.” [11] These inflammatory statements, advocating violence and erasure, provoked strong reactions from various communities, including Arabs, Spaniards, and Dutch citizens. Their responses were not racially or ethnically motivated but were driven by a collective condemnation of the genocidal sentiments expressed by the fans. [12]
Instead of addressing the incitement to violence, some media outlets mischaracterized the reactions as “pogroms” against Israelis. This misuse of the term “pogrom”—historically referring to violent attacks against Jewish communities—distorts the reality of the situation. [13] By labeling the backlash as antisemitic, these narratives weaponize the trauma of Jewish history to deflect criticism from those promoting hate speech. This manipulation not only disrespects the memory of actual pogrom victims but also undermines genuine efforts to combat antisemitism by conflating it with legitimate opposition to calls for ethnic cleansing.[14]
Such distortions serve to shield individuals advocating violence from accountability, while falsely portraying those who stand against hate speech as perpetrators of bigotry. This tactic not only erases the painful legacy of Jewish persecution but also legitimizes incitement of hatred against Palestinians, Arabs and the supporters of their most basic human rights.
Undermining Jewish Voices Opposed to Israel’s Actions Anti-Zionist Jews have consistently and courageously voiced their opposition to Israel’s policies, challenging the narrative that all Jews support the state of Israel. [15] [16] Organizations like IfNotNow and individuals like historian Ilan Pappé reject Zionism on ethical grounds, arguing that it is incompatible with human rights for Palestinians. Pappé, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, argues that the foundation of Israel as a state involved the “systematic expulsion of Palestinians,” a policy of ethnic cleansing that continues through settlement expansion and military occupation. [17] [18] [19]
Many prominent Jewish scholars, holocaust survivors and their descendants, as well as historians have echoed this sentiment. [20] [21] For example, Professor Norman Finkelstein, author of The Holocaust Industry, has criticized Israel’s use of antisemitism accusations, arguing that they exploit Jewish suffering for political gain. [22] Finkelstein contends that this practice is not about protecting Jews but rather immunizing Israel from criticism. This manipulation not only undermines the lived experiences of Holocaust survivors and their descendants but trivializes the grave nature of antisemitism by using it as a shield for state violence. [23] [24] [25] [26]
Jewish Voice for Peace, an organization committed to human rights for Palestinians, emphasizes that weaponizing antisemitism falsely implies that Jews are monolithic in their support of Israel, disregarding the voices of anti-Zionist Jews who oppose occupation and apartheid. [27] The organization has made its position clear: antisemitism is real, and it is on the rise, but conflating antisemitism with criticism of Israel undermines our fight against actual hatred against Jews. [28]
Anti-Zionist Jewish communities continue to emphasize that weaponizing antisemitism erases their identities and beliefs. By falsely presenting Jewish identity as inherently tied to Zionism, advocates of Israeli policies erase the existence of countless Jews who fight for Palestinian rights. [29]
The phrase “Israel’s right to exist” is not grounded in international law but functions as a political demand designed to erase and neutralize the foundational violence upon which the Israeli state was established. No country has an enshrined “right to exist” under international law; what is codified, instead, is the right of peoples to self-determination. Yet Palestinians — an indigenous population subject to forced displacement, occupation, and apartheid — are uniquely coerced to affirm not just Israel’s existence, but its existence as a Jewish ethnostate. The demand to recognise an illegal state built on the erasure of Palestinians serves a clear colonial function: to reframe a settler-colonial project as a matter of mutual recognition, while masking the dispossession and ongoing subjugation of the native population.
Reaffirming this “right” without condition is not neutral — it is a weaponized narrative that forces the oppressed to validate the conditions of their own oppression. It silences the Nakba, the mass expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians in 1948; it ignores the demolition of over 500 villages; it legitimizes the denial of the right of return, a right Palestinians hold under UN Resolution 194. In reality, this dog-whistle turns a settler-colonial enterprise into a moral imperative, requiring Palestinians to grant legitimacy to a state that continues to colonize their land, suffocate Gaza, fragment the West Bank, and implement apartheid policies across all territories it controls.
This language operates as a form of colonial gaslighting by shifting the global discourse from justice, land, and liberation to “recognition,” painting Palestinians as irrational or hostile if they refuse to validate a system structured on their displacement. It allows Israel to demand unconditional acceptance while giving nothing in return — not rights, not reparations, not even a meaningful recognition of the Palestinian people as equals. Internationally, it upholds a model where settler-colonialism is not only protected but sanctified, positioning Israel as eternally under threat while Palestinians are cast as aggressors for simply insisting they too have a right to exist with dignity on their ancestral land.
In this way, the assertion that “Israel has a right to exist” functions not as a principle of peace, but as a discursive tool of imperial domination, maintaining asymmetry and preventing justice. To challenge it is not to deny Jewish safety or personhood — it is to refuse the erasure of a people whose lives, land, and future have been systematically stripped under the banner of legitimacy. True peace cannot be built on the demand that the colonized affirm the righteousness of their own dispossession.
Pinkwashing — Israel’s strategic promotion of its LGBTQ+ rights record to obscure its apartheid regime and ongoing colonization of Palestine[1]— is more than a public relations tactic but actually serves a core function of settler-colonial ideology: the reframing of an inherently violent project as a progressive and accepting society. [2]
While Israel markets itself as progressive, its government actually aligns with far-right, homophobic leaders like Bolsonaro, Orbán, and Christian Zionist extremists who openly despise queer communities. [3] [4] [5] However, by falsely promoting itself as a “gay-friendly” democracy, Israel seeks to divert attention from its crimes of land theft, military occupation, ethnic cleansing, and the systematic oppression of Palestinians, queer and non-queer alike.
Under international law, absolutely no state possesses an inherent "right to exist" as an ethnocratic regime, yet Israel demands global recognition not just as a state, but as a Jewish supremacist entity, while systematically erasing Palestinian existence. [6] [7]Similarly, its pinkwashing campaign weaponizes LGBTQ+ rights to re-enforce this same colonial logic: positioning Israel as a liberal democracy while denying Palestinians — including queer Palestinians — their fundamental rights to land, return, and self-determination. [8][9]
Liberal Zionism masquerades as a "moderate" or "progressive" strain of Zionism, blending Jewish nationalism with cherry-picked liberal values like democracy and human rights as a means to justify the existence of the illegal settler colonial ethnostate known as “Israel” [1].
And Liberal Zionism is one of the greatest threats because of its political camouflage [2]. By co-opting progressive language, Liberal Zionism inoculates Zionism against true anti-colonial solidarity, dividing the left and derailing BDS movements [3]. It ensures the ongoing Nakba – from Gaza's ruins to Hebron's checkpoints – persists under a democratic veneer, making decolonization seem radical rather than just [4] [5].
Emerging from early 20th-century Labor Zionism — the very movement that orchestrated the 1948 Nakba which ethnically cleansed over 750,000 Palestinians through mass expulsions and village destructions — liberal Zionism has always served as the velvet glove over the iron fist of settler-colonialism [6] [7].
Despite claiming it merely seeks a "Jewish and democratic state," this rhetoric is actually code for an ethnostate where Jewish supremacy trumps Palestinian equality, enshrined in laws like the 2018 Nation-State Law that demotes Arabic and prioritizes Jewish settlement [8] [9].
At its core, liberal Zionism rejects the colonial origins of Israel and instead attempts to frame the Zionist project as a "return" or "liberation" rather than a European settler invasion that erased indigenous Palestinian society [10].
As a political movement, liberal Zionism emerged as a response to antisemitism and the Holocaust but quickly pivoted to justifying land theft under the guise of "self-determination," ignoring how Zionism fits classic colonial patterns: displacement of natives, resource extraction, and demographic engineering to maintain a Jewish majority [11].
As of 2025, amid the Gaza genocide and West Bank annexation pushes, it clings to a fading two-state illusion, providing diplomatic and financial cover for Israel's crimes while silencing Palestinian voices as "antisemitic" [12].
“Zionism is a colonialism, not a simple radical nationalism: even in its left-wing version, it is a colonialist nationalism." – Zeev Sternhell, liberal Zionist historian exposing his own ideology's flaws [13].
The Jewish National Fund (JNF) functions as a key Zionist entity advancing settler-colonialism in Palestine, actively facilitating the ethnic cleansing and dispossession of Palestinians under the cover of environmental initiatives that obscure land grabs and the erasure of Indigenous communities. Through its "green colonialism," the JNF employs tree-planting and forestation as tools to confiscate Palestinian land, disrupt native ecosystems, and bar Palestinians from their hereditary territories, thereby entrenching Israel's occupation and apartheid regime. This practice is egregious because it masquerades ecological efforts as benevolent while directly supporting the displacement of Palestinians, contributing to ongoing ethnic cleansing by rendering stolen land inaccessible and altering its demographic character to favor Jewish settlers, as seen in the destruction of Bedouin farmlands in the Naqab to plant non-native trees. [1]
Israel designates these JNF-managed areas as national parks, forests, and reserves to justify the forced removal of Palestinians, solidify apartheid structures, and prevent the return of those displaced during the 1948 Nakba and subsequent occupations. The JNF oversees approximately 13% of land taken from Palestinians, overlaying demolished villages with pine forests to hide evidence of destruction and impose a contrived Israeli landscape, which destroys Palestinian olive orchards, undermines agricultural sustainability, and intensifies water shortages by redirecting supplies to illegal Jewish settlements — all while portraying itself as an eco-friendly organization. Such actions are profoundly harmful as they perpetuate genocide through environmental manipulation, erasing cultural heritage and livelihoods, and bolstering settler expansion that displaces Indigenous populations, exemplified by the uprooting of over 160,000 Palestinian olive trees to accommodate JNF forests, an act of ecocide that supports the occupation by economically strangling Palestinian communities. [2] [3]
The JNF's operations sustain settler violence and genocide by financing and enabling the growth of unlawful settlements in the occupied West Bank and other areas. For example, it has demolished Bedouin agricultural lands in the Naqab (Negev) for tree-planting projects, evicting Indigenous groups under the pretext of environmental enhancement, mirroring tactics used during the 1948 Nakba where the JNF aided Israeli forces in destroying over 370 Palestinian villages and reallocating the land solely for Jewish settlement. This is egregious because it directly aids ethnic cleansing by collaborating in the expulsion and prevention of return for Palestinians, reinforcing settler colonialism through exclusionary land policies that marginalize and erase Palestinian presence, as articulated by JNF figure Joseph Weitz in 1940, who called for the "transfer" of Palestinians to establish Zionist control, embedding terrorist practices into the organization's framework. [4] [5]
In the occupied territories, the JNF collaborates with the Israeli government to seize natural resources, including water, for settler advantage while depriving Palestinians of fundamental rights. This partnership exacerbates apartheid by enforcing discriminatory land allocation that subordinates Palestinian development to settler priorities, as outlined in human rights documentation. The JNF's charitable image, including building playgrounds and parks on seized land, launders its involvement in violence, such as supporting projects in West Bank settlement blocs like Gush Etzion, which expand occupation and facilitate further dispossession. These efforts are appalling as they normalize genocide by presenting land theft as philanthropy, contributing to settler colonialism by maintaining Jewish demographic dominance and blocking Palestinian self-determination. [6]
Historically, the JNF has been instrumental in the Zionist project since its founding in 1901, acquiring land in Ottoman Palestine to promote Jewish settlement while excluding Palestinians, leading to the control of over 2.5 million dunams today through laws that institutionalize discrimination. In places like Silwan in East Jerusalem and Umm al-Hiran in the Naqab, the JNF and its subsidiaries like Himnuta have facilitated property transfers and evictions to establish Jewish-only communities, fragmenting Palestinian territories and enforcing separation. This supports ethnic cleansing by using legal mechanisms to dispossess families and expand settlements, perpetuating a system of domination that amounts to crimes against humanity. [7] [8]
The JNF's greenwashing extends to solar projects in the Naqab, marketed as sustainable but used to displace Palestinians while powering settlements, denying electricity to Bedouin villages. Such hypocrisy underscores how the organization weaponizes environmentalism to advance apartheid, destroying Indigenous ties to the land and enabling ongoing genocide through resource exploitation and forced displacement. By prioritizing Jewish exclusivity, the JNF upholds a colonial order that has displaced millions since 1948, ensuring no room for Palestinian return or equality, as evidenced by its role in expropriating 4.2–6.6 million dunams via discriminatory laws. This sustained campaign is egregious, as it not only erases Palestinian history but actively contributes to the occupation by entrenching territorial control and demographic engineering, demanding accountability for its complicity in settler terrorism. [9] [10]
Israel enforces normalization as a fundamental tactic of its settler-colonial regime and apartheid system, compelling the depiction of its occupation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide as everyday realities while suppressing Palestinian resistance and rights to justice, return, and liberation. Normalization portrays Israel's domination as a legitimate state worthy of standard diplomatic, economic, cultural, and academic engagements, ignoring demands for dismantling oppression and reinforcing Jewish supremacy over Indigenous Palestinian land and people. This strategy is egregious because it whitewashes the continuous Nakba, land expropriation, and systemic violence, isolating Palestinians and bolstering settler colonialism by undermining international solidarity and legitimizing illegal expansions that perpetuate genocide. [1]
Through diplomatic channels, Israel advances normalization via agreements like the 2020 Abraham Accords with the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco, forging full relations without mandating an end to occupation or apartheid. These pacts favor economic and security benefits for authoritarian leaders while forsaking Palestinian self-determination, directly sustaining settler violence by allowing unchecked settlement growth, home demolitions, and refugee denial amid increasing trade and tourism. Such normalization is harmful as it fragments Palestinian society, deepens territorial apartheid, and obstructs land returns, contributing to ethnic cleansing by normalizing the oppressor-oppressed dynamic without addressing root injustices. [2] [3]
Culturally and environmentally, Israel promotes "eco-normalization" through entities like the JNF, using tree-planting over razed villages to frame dispossession as advancement. Academically and artistically, collaborative projects often impose false equivalence between occupier and occupied, disregarding underlying oppression. This is egregious because it colonizes minds by presenting apartheid as inevitable, supporting occupation through deceptive coexistence narratives that erode resistance and enable further genocide, as seen in events that cover up root causes without pursuing justice. [4] [5]
The Palestinian-led BDS movement rejects normalization as complicity in oppression, mandating that joint activities with Israelis recognize Palestinian rights and focus on co-resistance against occupation, settler-colonialism, and apartheid. Normalization activities, such as festivals or conferences portraying symmetry, are boycottable for being morally reprehensible and intellectually dishonest, perpetuating false premises of equal responsibility. By isolating Palestinians and validating Israel's actions, normalization sustains settler-colonial violence, allowing expansion of illegal settlements and denial of basic rights while fragmenting global opposition. [6]
Normalization undermines the Palestinian struggle by treating Israel's regime as normal, countering anti-colonial efforts like BDS that draw from South African anti-apartheid precedents. It decolonizes minds from hegemonic attempts to accept colonialism, emphasizing that genuine relations require dismantling structures of domination first. This tactic is appalling as it reinforces genocide by whitewashing oppression under slogans of peace, contributing to ethnic cleansing through economic ties that fund military occupation and displace communities. [7] [8]
Human rights analyses confirm that such international engagements maintain apartheid by failing to address crimes like dispossession and persecution, allowing Israel to evade accountability. Normalization isolates the oppressed, portraying resistance as abnormal while entrenching settler privileges, as evidenced in Arab-Israeli projects that ignore Palestinian rights. Ultimately, it perpetuates a colonial order where occupation becomes routine, demanding rejection to achieve liberation and end the ongoing Nakba. [10]